::Laura on a Mission::

[Karmacoma]

Hi everyone!
I'm Laura, I'm 32, live in Aberdeen and yesterday I started Xenical

About 1 year ago, I was doing Slimming World [Green]. It was ok, I lost 35 lbs and then it all went pear shaped.
Weddings, nights out, BBQ's, and I gave up. After a pretty grim 6 months, I am back and ready to go!

I was actually at the doctor for my check up for the pill and out of the blue I asked about Xenical, she said no reason why I can't get it, so we had a chat about things and here I am.

I will be going to back to her in 4 weeks time to get weighed and what not, which is a good thing, as I won't be stepping on the scales every day like I did before and got stressed about it!

SO my first day on the little blue pill went super...
I work in an office Monday - Friday so I have breakfast & lunch there.
I thought breakfast might be a problem, I am used to having toast thick with butter, or a pancake or bacon roll [tut tut].
But I have now turned to a bowl of cereal and actually enjoyed it. I have a water cooler in my office too, so constantly filling up my glass. Must of had about 10 yesterday and was up all night peeing :/

My biggest challenge tho is that we are always having meetings with clients and get buffet lunches in [like today], and i am forever picking on the Duck Spring Rolls and chicken skewers, but today i will resist.
I have my lovely Mugshot and watermelon to look forward to : )

Right, enough talking and on with my food from yesterday!

Breakfast::
Bowl of ASDA vitality cereal
Chopped strawberries

Lunch::
Mughsot
Weight Watchers lemon & lime yogurt
Apple

Dinner::
Huge Salad consisting of::
2 Chopped peppers, 1 red onion, whole cucumber, 4 celery sticks, gem lettuce and chopped up seafood sticks.
Apple

And of course, loads of water.
I don't drink tea or coffee, yuck

Had a great sleep, woke up feeling totally refreshed and motivated, so bring on Day 2 =]

 

[stephybaby]

Sounds like your raring to go!

You've started amazingly and of you Carry on like this you'll see results


Wish you lots of luck xxx

 

[Rachgleeson]

what a great start you made, well done. Great food choices there!!

 

[Karmacoma]

Day 2

Breakfast::
Bowl of ASDA Vitality cereal with milk
Watermelon slices

Lunch::
Thai Mugshot
3 x Ryvitas with extra light philadelphia spread
Weight Watchers Lemon & Lime yogurt
Apple

Dinner::
Vegetable risotto consisting of:
Dry fried chopped onion, garlic, baby corn, spring onions and bag of mange tout!

And of course I drank nothing but water.
All in all another great day.

Weird thing is, I don't feel the need to snack at all at work. Before I would have crisps, crackers with cheese spread AFTER lunch. AND I managed to resist the buffet lunch for the Norwegians. There was so much junk left over, it all looked and smelled so delicious, Filo King Prawns, Curry sausage rolls, but I wasn't even tempted!

AND I'm so impressed at my risotto that I made. Normally I would cook the whole pack or rice for me & P [the b'f] and we would scoff the lot between us - 2 bowls, but i only made 1/2 the pack and couldnt even finish my one bowl.

 

[Rachgleeson]

I love those mug shots too, really satisfying and tasty!!

 

[Karmacoma]

I love those mug shots too, really satisfying and tasty!!

Agreed!
Even when I wasn't 'Healthy Eating', I would still have one for lunch at work.
They are so cheap and cheerful

 

[Karmacoma]

Day 3

Breakfast::
ASDA Vitality cereal with milk
Chopped Strawberries

Lunch::
Thai Mugshot
3 x Ryvita with Extra Light Philadelphia
Weight Watchers Chocolate yogurt
Apple

Dinner::
Remains of last nights vegetable risotto
5 celery sticks

And water water water

I am amazed I don't feel the need to snack at all during the day, it's ace! And so far 100%, not even craving alcohol or crisps yet.
But all prepared for when i do

 

[mrs a]

well done - you are doing really well - you'll have your weight off before you know it xx

must have a look for mugshots x

 

[Karmacoma]

Thanks Mrs A
Mugshots are so easy for me at work.

Day 4

Breakfast::
ASDA Vitality cereal with milk
Chopped Strawberries

Lunch::
Thai Mughsot
3 x ryvitas with extra light philadelphia
Weight Watchers Chocolate yougurt
Apple

Dinner::
ASDA Good For You Paella
with added sugar snap peas and baby corn

And...... water!
Oh, and a can of diet coke at night!

Another 100% day and feeling great.

 

[Rachgleeson]

well done on your 100% days hun, your doing great!!

 

[Karmacoma]

^^Thanks Rach

Well I survived the weekend.
And not a craving for a beer or a glass of wine too.
I am super pleased with myself!

Saturday day time I was at a course for my youth work, and instead of going out for lunch, they got food in for us to make. Loaves of bread for sandwiches with cheese, ham, coleslaw, crisps, etc, so I could help myself.
Ended up with a handful of cherry tomatoes and 2 slices of cold ham.
It actually filled me up, and I'm impressed I didnt make a sandwich... the bread actually looked delicious.

Yesterday I decided to make my own sushi, just using sushi rice, chopped spring onion and chopped cucumber. It tasted SO good, just like the real thing!
I did some photos, will get them up later

Day 5

Breakfast::
ASDA Vitality cereal with milk

Lunch::
Box of Cherry Tomatoes
2 slices of cold ham
Apple

Dinner::
ASDA Good for you Chicken Korma
Weight Watchers Chocolate yogurt

Snacks::
Chopped raw carrots

Day 6

Breakfast::
Asda Vitality Cereal with Milk

Snack::
Watermelon

Lunch / Dinner [3pm ish]
10 Home made Sushi rolls - sushi rice, spring onion & cucmber

And copious amounts of water as always

Tomorrow I will have completed week 1! Woooop ^_^

 

[mrs a]

you are doing so well - i bet you have lost loads your first week.

 

[Karmacoma]

you are doing so well - i bet you have lost loads your first week.

Sadly I wont know until I get weight at the doctors in 3 weeks time.
Decided to get weighed monthly this time.
When I was on Slimming world, it was weekly and i got into habbit of weighing myself every morning and it drove me crazy! Now my scales are broken so once monthly at the docs it is!

 

[mrs a]

that might be better - you'll be able to tell by your clothes anyway.

i do far too much of the on and off the scales and it does get you agitated. x

 

[Karmacoma]

Day 7

Breakfast::
ASDA Vitality cereal with milk
Watermelo

Lunch::
Weight Watchers Chicken Noodle soup
3 x Ryvita with Extra Light Philadelphia
Apple

Dinner::
Asda good for you piri piri chicken and rice

Snacked on a few slices of ham

Well week 1 complete! YAY
I feel so great, in such a happy mood.
I can't believe I have also gone 1 week without ALCOHOL and crisps!
Those were my let-downs. I would come in from work, grab a beer out the fridge, or a glass of wine, and that would lead to 2...
And at work, i would normally have maybe 2 bags of crisps a day.
Not forgetting going to the van before hand for bacon roll or a pancake.
I'm saving so much money hehee, the boyfriend is loving it!

Bring on Week 2 =]

 

[Karmacoma]

Day 8

Breakfast::
Orange

Lunch::
Heinz tomato soup
3 x crispbread with extra light philadelphia 35g tub and chopped spring onions
and a few slices of TESCO honey roast ham

Dinner::
Made some spicy rice consisting of::
King prawns, baby corn, mange tout, onions, garlic and peppers
and lots of spices, chilli flakes, ginger, etc

Snacks::
Box of cherry tomatoes

Another 100% day.
Check me, I'm getting good at this!

Bleh, the girls at my work are going out tomorrow night. There is only 4 of us, but Revolution in town [where we had our christmas night out] is offering us to come and sample their new food menu. They emailed me whats on offer and it's totally bad. Mini burgers, duck rolls, sweet chilli chicken pizza, etc.

So I said to the other girls i'm not coming along, and they are all like 'oh come on, it's just one night of being bad'. Everything is free, we can eat as much as we want!
That's not the point, i've been 100% for 8 days now and I'm not letting one night of eating **** spoil my routine. I am so serious about losing this weight and they seem to think it's a joke! I got quite annoyed at them. They said they will support me, and that's not supporting me

Anyway, I might nip along after and have a spirit and diet coke. But no food. I will happily have my healthy dinner at home!

 

[Karmacoma]

Day 9

Breakfast::
Half a Galia Mellon chopped up

Lunch::
Thai Mugshot
3 x Ryvita Crackerbread with 35g tub of Extra Light Philadelphia Spread with Chopped Spring Onions

Dinner::
Weight Watchers Shephers Pie
A handful of home made potoato wedges

Snacks::
Box of cherry tomatoes
Batchelors Slim a Soup Chicken Noodle

I'm on myfitnesspal now... so easy to track everything!

 

[Rachgleeson]

well done on resisting the night of tempting food, can be so hard sometimes!! You seem to be doing really well hun, keep up the good work!!

 

[Karmacoma]

^^Thanks Rach

Day 10

Breakfast ::
Kiwi Fruit

Lunch::
Heinz cream of chicken soup
3 x Ryvita Original Crackerbread with 35g tub of extra light philadelphia and chopped cucumber

Dinner::
Asda Good For You Chicken & Bacon past bake

Snacks::
Box of cherry tomatoes
Pack of king prawns

God nos how much water I drank, but I was peeing constantly at work lol *too much info*

 

[Karmacoma]

Day 11

Breakfast::
Bowl of Special K oats & honey with a wee bit of milk
Kiwi Fruit

Lunch::
Thai Mugshot
3 x Ryvita original crispbread with a 35g tub of extra light philadelphia spread and chopped cucumbers and spring onion
Weight Watchers caramel cream rice desert thing

Dinner::
YO! Sushi ... consisting of 5 plates of cucumber maki rolls
[93 calories per plate! not too bad eh!]

Snacks::
King prawns
Box of cherry tomatoes

Day 12

Breakfast::
Special K cereal oats and honey with milk

Lunch::
Weight watchers frozen chicken curry

Dinner::
Sushi remains

Snacks::
Chopped Galia and water melon

Not had much food today, been super busy being all over the place!

It's the weekend and still not a sight of alcohol.
That's almost 2 weeks now without a glass of wine or a bottle of beer.
See... i CAN do this!