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Just a quick update - I stuck to what I said yesterday & had the Tuna pasta for lunch & the Tesco stew (which I still can't believe is free) for dinner. The only add ons I had were two freeze pops (0.5 syns each) - just to keep my hands busy while watching the evening TV & a bag of Cherry infused raisins (Nakd) - 3.5 syns. So yesterdays syns came to around 5/6.
This morning I thought the scales would be a little unkind, as, even though all the food I had yesterday was fine - sometimes you feel like you've eaten lots of 'stodge' haha (pasta, potatoes etc)! However, this mornings scales show... 11st 5 & 3/4! They were 11st 6 & 1/4 yesterday - so that is GREAT, considering I sat on my @ss all day yesterday haha, literally. We had a lazy TV day even though the sun was shining. We had too much of the sun on Saturday!
I'm off work today & tomorrow & so far this morning, I have had 1 x 0% free yogurt & 1 x cup of Nescafe Dolce Gusto (light) cappuccino - which I found out today is just 2.5 syns, so I'll be able to have one of those in the morning when needed. I was missing using my Dolce Gusto machine & I'm glad they are quite low on syns! I'm planning on doing the 30DS as soon as my coffee & yogurt go down. I don't want to be doing jumping jacks with a belly full of liquid!! I also own a Polar heart monitor which is linked to an app on my iPhone which shows how many calories you are burning along with other stats. I have done the 30DS before (when I finished SW last time) it helped me stay at 11st 4lbs (ish) & I was eating pretty much what I wanted - NOT SW - so hopefully, eating healthily this time, I should see some more results!
The great thing about the 30DS is also the fact that you lose a LOT of inches, especially on those days where you might be sticking around the same weight.. you notice it dropping off your hips/arms etc. If anyone is interested in the 30 Day Shred - the link is HERE & you can watch the whole thing on Youtube for free. You do 10 days level 1, 10 days level 2 & the last 10 days on level 3. Believe it or not, I actually found level 2 & 3 more enjoyable than level 1. Less jumping!
My only advice is that if you DO plan on doing it, lose as much weight as you can through healthy eating first, then when you hit a weight you feel comfortable to be jumping around or hit 'the wall' that's when this becomes tolerable & enjoyable. The last thing you need is to be really struggling with this & not enjoy it - resulting in giving up on the 4th day. This happened to me when I was at my heaviest last time/year (12st 13lbs). The bouncing wasn't fun, I could only manage so much & would spend most of the workout standing there drinking water/panting/screaming! lol - The workout is ONLY 20mins(ish) long (that includes warm up/cool down and minus the talking at the start) - so it REALLY IS do-able at ANY time of the day where you have a spare half hour.
This was only meant to be a short post, haha.. well for the rest of today.. I'm not too sure what I'll be having.. possibly some Tuna Pasta again for lunch (sweetcorn, wholewheat pasta, tuna, extra light mayo) & maybe some quorn sausages x 2 with some new potatoes for dinner.. we'll see
I know one thing, I'll be drinking that water during & after that workout haha!
This morning I thought the scales would be a little unkind, as, even though all the food I had yesterday was fine - sometimes you feel like you've eaten lots of 'stodge' haha (pasta, potatoes etc)! However, this mornings scales show... 11st 5 & 3/4! They were 11st 6 & 1/4 yesterday - so that is GREAT, considering I sat on my @ss all day yesterday haha, literally. We had a lazy TV day even though the sun was shining. We had too much of the sun on Saturday!
I'm off work today & tomorrow & so far this morning, I have had 1 x 0% free yogurt & 1 x cup of Nescafe Dolce Gusto (light) cappuccino - which I found out today is just 2.5 syns, so I'll be able to have one of those in the morning when needed. I was missing using my Dolce Gusto machine & I'm glad they are quite low on syns! I'm planning on doing the 30DS as soon as my coffee & yogurt go down. I don't want to be doing jumping jacks with a belly full of liquid!! I also own a Polar heart monitor which is linked to an app on my iPhone which shows how many calories you are burning along with other stats. I have done the 30DS before (when I finished SW last time) it helped me stay at 11st 4lbs (ish) & I was eating pretty much what I wanted - NOT SW - so hopefully, eating healthily this time, I should see some more results!
The great thing about the 30DS is also the fact that you lose a LOT of inches, especially on those days where you might be sticking around the same weight.. you notice it dropping off your hips/arms etc. If anyone is interested in the 30 Day Shred - the link is HERE & you can watch the whole thing on Youtube for free. You do 10 days level 1, 10 days level 2 & the last 10 days on level 3. Believe it or not, I actually found level 2 & 3 more enjoyable than level 1. Less jumping!
My only advice is that if you DO plan on doing it, lose as much weight as you can through healthy eating first, then when you hit a weight you feel comfortable to be jumping around or hit 'the wall' that's when this becomes tolerable & enjoyable. The last thing you need is to be really struggling with this & not enjoy it - resulting in giving up on the 4th day. This happened to me when I was at my heaviest last time/year (12st 13lbs). The bouncing wasn't fun, I could only manage so much & would spend most of the workout standing there drinking water/panting/screaming! lol - The workout is ONLY 20mins(ish) long (that includes warm up/cool down and minus the talking at the start) - so it REALLY IS do-able at ANY time of the day where you have a spare half hour.
This was only meant to be a short post, haha.. well for the rest of today.. I'm not too sure what I'll be having.. possibly some Tuna Pasta again for lunch (sweetcorn, wholewheat pasta, tuna, extra light mayo) & maybe some quorn sausages x 2 with some new potatoes for dinner.. we'll see
I know one thing, I'll be drinking that water during & after that workout haha!
