Thanks guys. It went well, the office is lovely and the people in my training group seem nice, although there are 15 of us so I'm going to have a job on remembering names!! Didn't do much today except a tour of the office and the usual introductory stuff. With the early start coupled with the walking, my feta salad for lunch just didn't cut it. Felt starving by the time I was finishing at 2.30pm so bought some wholemeal rolls, chicken and salad, so I can take sandwiches the rest of the week. Calories wise it should be fairly similar to the feta salad (which comes in at 286), but will be much more filling. Plus, eating a salad for lunch on a freezing cold day wasn't the most appealing prospect. Had to force it down me and left quite a bit as I wasn't feeling it.
Felt good to get the walking under my belt today. In total it took 40 minutes and map my walk measures it as 1.8 miles, so after reading Soph's idea I calculated the calories burnt at 219, that's 1100 extra calories burnt over the course of my working week. Not too shabby really, with that and a couple of swimming sessions I should be easily be burning an extra pound of fat (3500 cals) a week!
Binned the library off today as I really couldn't be bothered, determined after I've had my mini's break that I'm going to do some study. It's crazy how the time flies though, you'd think finishing at 2.30pm would leave loads of time in the afternoon, but after walking to the car, nipping to the shops, driving home, putting the shopping away and making a sandwich it's nearly 5pm! WTF!
Was going to go swimming tonight but half the pool is off limits due to the aqua aerobics, so saving it for tomorrow when it's not going to be as busy. I've been before when the aqua class is on and it gets so busy in the other half of the pool that I kept getting cut up by people. Of course I could just DO the aqua class, but I'm waiting until I've joined the leisure centre for that as it's over double the price of a swim - I know, what a cheapskate I am!
Don't worry though, this isn't me making excuses I really want to go swimming, just makes sense to leave it till a day I can have a proper session. Roll on a week on Thur when I can buy my membership, so excited about it!
I've also found an AMAZING deal on a holiday to Corfu in September. The apartment looks stunning and it's a complete bargain. The only thing is it'd be the day after we get back from Tallin, which we're going to book soon. So we'd literally be landing, coming home, and setting off again to the airport the next day! I haven't told Chris yet 'cos I know he'll say 'well lets just pick ONE' and me being me I naturally want to go to both!
He's already booked the 2 weeks off at work so I'm thinking about paying for it myself by working overtime and giving it him as an anniversary present, that way I get to look like an amazing girlfriend and get my extra holiday fix too! Win win scenario!
Week 27, Day 7 - Green
Breakfast - Chewy D - hexb
Lunch - feta (hexa) salad with olives - 2 syns
Snack - wm roll (hexb) with cheese (hexa), lettuce and tomato
Tea - Giovanni Rana Spinach and ricotta tortellini - 7 syns
Supper - banana
Total - 9 syns
Weekly syns - 74/105
Est calories - 1400
Exercise - 40 minutes walking
Ron -What a fantastic result! So chuffed for you, glad it's working. Will have to see if I can get Chris to download me a 'free' copy from somewhere so I can give it a go!
Elle - Thanks hun I'm so excited. We're getting married in Prague at the old town hall (pic below) next August. We both absolutely love Prague and its our favourite city, although we've never been together. Still got lots of stuff to plan and figure out yet, just hope it's nice and sunny with it being August! Fingers crossed!
Soph - Oh no, another one with the buttons! So gutting isn't it?! Dunno about you but the 'big' mini bags didn't even seem like a lot, I could have easily eaten 2! Guess that's what you get when you grow up with no control around chocolate like me, I honestly couldn't believe it. Would never have thought a 33p bag of buttons contained THREE servings, WTF!!
I know its crazy how many calories I burn swimming, didn't manage 1.5 hrs in one go, but even for an hour it's a decent amount. Just need to increase it now to 3 times a week and job's a good 'un. Really don't want to get disheartened though if it slows my losses, though after that half a pound last week I'm pretty sure ANYTHING will help! Hopefully *cue 3lb gain for no apparent reason*
Scarlett - Thanks hun. With the dress I think I'm going to wait until Jan next year before I start looking. I figure by then I'll still have 7 months to go, but if I get one that ties at the back rather than with a rigid fastening, it should still fit even with extra weight loss. Of course it all depends how well I've done by then, but with an average 7lbs a month I should hopefully be at goal a few months before the big day so it'd give me time to get it altered etc...