Sophie's Slimming World and Cinema critiques!

Hahaha! Well done on your 1lb poops ;)

That's really cool that you told G about your weight and he was nice and supportive. From what you've said about him, I can't imagine he wouldn't have been :) x
 
I knew he wouldnt have been but it was still mega scary. Have never revealed my weight to anyone IRL except doctor!
I remember early on when I started SW I said I didnt want him to see my weight and he said "the number means nothing. I'd love you even if you were 20 stone!" like it was some big monstrous number-- but I was over 20 stone! So that freaked me out a bit :p but the conversation was right yesterday and I felt very close to him and it came out very easily. Especially felt good now that I am in.the 16's as it sounds further away from 20 :p and recently I told him that my first goal was 13 st 4 (and he weighs about that himself, we are the same height and he is thin so obvs knew there were a few stone in it still!) so I figured he'd have sort.of worked it out, which took the pressure off a bit. It is nice now that when I get to the half way point in... 1lbs time!? :O gosh, so near!... I can tell him and celebrate :)

P.s. I told Eliza that I was on SW too, felt less scary, will probs not find it too difficult to tell family before Florida! She said that she could really tell, especially my collar bone area and waist. Yippee :D feels awesome that is showing *happy dance* I felt so much nore confident than normal at the club on Friday. :D
 
Thanks Emma! It feels FANTASTIC. I think I'm partly this excited because it took SO long to see any difference at all, that I didn't believe it :p and now it's like AWWW YEAAA! :D hahaha.

Ok guys- I told my dad that I was on SW today :eek: in an email. *gulp*
For those who are new to this thread, I've hidden it from my family all this time because they made me feel so ashamed (from about the age of 12) because of my weight; my Grandma and aunts inadvertently bullied me into a very deep insecurity of my weight (which of course fed it further)! So I was ashamed to tell them because they always view me as a failure and I was so nervous that I'd give up on the weight loss plan :rolleyes:

Also, my Dad's side of the family are all obese and yo-yo dieters- one year they're average, the next year fat, back and forth. I didn't want them to lecture me on how to do it their failed way, I didn't want them to assume I'd be like them with it! And I didn't want the PRESSURE either! Once ONE of my family know something, suddenly it spreads like wildfire and my family in Switzerland and Canada know within minutes.

Sooo yeah, it feels kinda mental to have emailed it to him. Next time I speak to my grandma she'll be all over the topic and it'll make me edgy, but I wanted my dad to know because when we go to Florida I want to sort of nudge him in the right direction too. He's been on the Diet Chef for a year or so (he is 6ft 8" and morbidly, morbidly obese, at least 450 pounds at his largest I'd say, biggest loser sort of size) and he lost like 5 stone or so, but every time he goes on holiday (literally 6 times a year) he takes two weeks off and packs back on another stone or so. America portions- eating out every day for two weeks- would probably gain him 2 stone! So I want to nudge him a bit too, help him make healthy options sometimes.

Feel so nervous about all the chat that'll be going around the family about me now though... But pretty cool that I found the confidence to say it. They can't tell me what to do now, because I've lost nearly 3.5 stone :p I KNOW MY SH*T! Yay SW :D

Red day- Had a pre-production meeting today so had a brunch and it kept me going all day! Usually get hungry around 2 hours after I eat breakfast, lol
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Brunch 12.30pm - Banana followed by potato pancaaaake :D yeah! Didn't get hungry for 8 friggin' hours! PP ftw.
Potato pancake on a Red day, HexyB style: potato (only 150g so less than whole HexB1), onion, carrot, 2 eggs, ex.v olive oil (HexB2) with scrambled eggs on top, HexA1 cheddar and plenty of ketchup (1.5)

Dinner 9pm - Extra lean shredded beef stir fry with red peppers and loads of onions on a bed of mixed salad. +1 for some honey and +HexA2 for Philly lightest in the stir fry.

Snacks - Stumbled across a Snog (frozen yoghurt) store - fat free and sugar free :O they use agave nectar to sweeten their yoghurt- the whole pot (probably the same amount as a muller light, but expanded from freezing) was 100cal! And since that much yoghurt is pretty much 100cal anyway, I'd say it's pretty much syn free ;) I will call it 1.5 syns for the agave nectar as I've read on the forums that it's about 1/2 a syn per teaspoon. Had some yummy mango on it too! Anyway- syns aside, it was really yummy :D I had green tea flavour, which didn't taste of green tea at all lol, but it was still nice. Am so looking out for that place- FF + SF :O awesome. I really wanted a treat and it was great :)
Also later had a small fruit box and medium raspberry box from M&S as they were reduced. £1.74 for both, woop!

Syns - 4
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I've decided that tomorrow will be my last mid-week WI. I think it's time to be a good girl and cut down to just one a week, as I'm getting a bit obsessed/thinking about it too much. I would probably have had a yummy green day today but didn't want to be bloated for the WI, but then... I feel restricted like that twice a week! It's probably kinda a good thing as it wills me into having more Red days, but I want to just chill a bit, less Red, more mixed, relax again. Plateau is over, time to breathe.
Having said that, I realised today that I'm just ONE pound away from my half way to goal mark :O and I'm pretty confident that I'll have that tomorrow because I've not eaten much today/yest... So I'll give it a go and see! I think I'm due on this weekend too so don't want to wait an extra week or two to find out if I'm at my half way point or not. But yeah, after tomorrow will be sticking to Monday WI's only.

Have a pre-prod meeting in town again tomorrow, kicking myself for not arranging them to be on the same day as they were both in Soho just a street away from each other! Have decided to bring Gerard along to this one as he'll probably be assisting on this project anyway, then we'll go have a date night after maybe :) am going to have a treat and have the proper yummy katsu terriyaki chicken; breadcrumbed, fried and saucy. Probably 40 syns or something but whateverrr I've been low syn all week. I'll probably even have one of the epic brownies at the Curzon theatre as they are THE BEST (meeting is in the lounge of the Curzon where all the snobby filmmakers hang out and b*tch about modern cinema, lol)

Anyway... long post! Soz!
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Not sure why but my ticker wont update :S weird. I'm 1 pound off my 3.5 stone award but I think it's 2lbs until I've hit the 50lbs loss/half way mark. Probably won't get that tomorrow since I only re-WI'd yesterday :p lol, so stupid. Ah well. No more mid weekies!
 
That is all such good news!! I hope your Dad is supportive. And if the rest of the family aren't then they can just f*ck right off really can't they?! ;) You've done amazingly, you're eating very healthily, and you know what you're doing, and it's not a fad!! Very proud of you for telling your Dad :D As well as talking to Gerard. Really positive :D

Sooooo close to the halfway mark. That is also indeed awesome. So much positivity!!

Hope the meeting went well today and good luck with the one tomorrow. Think it would be good for G to go along and see what you do at these things. Doesn't sound like he's been very involved in that side of things?

Oooh date night :D I'm having a date night on Friday with my friend lol.xx
 
You always say such awesome things Kelly *HUG* :D I am proud of myself for losing weight (dont often get proud!), it really seemed out of the question my whole life, epic turn around. :p

I'm sure my family will be relieved! They are so about materialism and appearance that they think my life must be horrific because I've been fat since a child, lol :mad:

Date night probably wont entail much more than a quick dinner at our fave cheapo awesome japanese restaurant in Chinatown, maybe some wandering around Landann taahn in the evening.
I managed a lil poop tonight so MIGHT manage the half way mark tomorrow :p haha. Will probably get a gain for being so cocky :rolleyes:
 
Woop-de-doo, I got my minus 2! I'm half way to my goal, yippeeee :D

I've had a pretty exciting morning so think I burnt my excitement out with the other things as I didn't seem that enthralled for once :p haha. I think it might partly be because I was wearing a slightly lighter top (not long sleeved) for WI so I kinda feel like it might not be totally accurate :rolleyes: but that wasn't planned and will be wearing this top most nights now that it's warm so... whatever, I'm counting it! Half way! 50lbs lost so far :O

This morning I woke up to an array of missed calls and texts- the company I go to the middle east for want me to go out last minute for like double pay LOL- it's only a half day shoot and it basically works out I'm getting paid £100 an hour hahahahaha amazing. So I am having to shift another shoot a bit (going for the meeting today about that shoot) and am hoping it doesn't mess with that too much, but if they can do Thurs/Fri instead of Tues/Weds would be perfect. We only set the date a few days ago and the producer said he was free all that week so just need to check with the artist!

Anyway, yeah, and then my Kobo arrived! I got given my Grandma's reject Kobo as she didn't like it- but it crashed and didn't work and after hours of trying to sort out stuff with customer services they made me send it back. Last night I was tracking it online and it said it still hadn't arrived at the destination :S so I wrote a semi angry email to Royal Mail asking WTF? as 3 weeks ago it had the same status of "Arrived in Amsterdam" (it needed to go further than that though) and this morning- ding dong! There it was :D thanks for sorting that out, Royal mail... LOL.
Anyway- they sent me a brand new one and it's an updated model :O the Kobo Touch instead of the Original, so it's touch screen and I can play sudoku on it 'n stuff, yay!
Then I got a call from a friend I hadn't heard from for ages asking if I wanted to go to this art event tonight, which depending on how long date night runs might pop to on the way home. Exciting times.

So am off to Dubai the day after tomorrow, mental. So much pre-production stuff to get settled before then though! And I'll have a day off out there- YAY! That doesn't happen often. Means I can fiiiinally go to a silk souk and get some awesome scarves! Or just laze by the pool and top up my massive tan from Tuesday (lol!)

Excited. So hyper right now!

P.S. thanks Summer! I hope they are supportive too... Dreamt I had a huge fight with my dad last night :S also dreamt I was in a drug crime thriller like scenario in Hogwarts, and I was flying around on a broom- it was AWESOME. AND I dreamt that I was going to a rave in an igloo in iceland. Maybe I'm so hyper because I didn't get much more than REM sleep last night lol :p
 
Had lots of treats today and don't feel guilty at all :p

EE
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B- Banana

L- Pasta with sugar snap peas and salad, HexA cheese and some salad cream (0.5)

D- Japanese teriyaki chicken with rice and sauce. Opted for the non deep fried version ('grilled' but it was still bread crumbed or something and there was skin on it) lots of syns, cancelling it out though because it was my 'half way mark' treat :p

Snacks - apple, half an AMAZING brownie from the Curzon's upstairs cafe (seriously, nicest brownies I've ever had have been there) probably ten syns for the half at least.

Syns total- billions
Enjoyment factor - worth it!
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I've been low syn all week so am just writing it off. Off to Dubai on Sat so will be semi off plan possibly then too, and just realised that am expecting period around now so that might make the trip a bit less fun.
Meeting today went well, fun shoot happening next week!

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Oh Hun, I'm so pleased for you, officially half way through your journey!!! Woop woop!
You definitely deserved a treat day yesterday, and it sounds like sw has made a massive difference. You didn't do too bad, and I bet the brownie tasted even better because you don't have them anymore.

So proud of you Hun, I'm glad that you've started opening up to the people in real life. I just hope there as supportive as they should be for you. Has your dad emailed you back yet?
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Thanks Em!
The brownies always were amazing but this time I was like non stop '"MMMMM"-ing as I ate it :p think I did well just to have half of one, was so hungry too! I'm going to relax into sw a bit again, think I've been too tight with it since the plateau; having like 5 syns a day average (which I havent found a strain) but not enjoying treats freely enough.

Dad emailed back and said nothing about the diet :S I had originally emailed him about our Florida trip and some tips G's cousin had given us and the reply was like "some good ideas there, we should meet soon to plan things a bit." :/ hmm. Might be because he in particular was never bothered about my weight (he was so huge himself!) or because he is bored of veing around his mum and sisters forever talking about their diets, or just because I said I'd nudge him to make good choices when we were away? Maybe he skimmed the emaip quickly as it was fairly long and didnt have much time to reply... Who knows. Feels a bit **** though, forever unsupportive. Maybe he wont bother telling others though lol.
 
Maybe he realised it was quite a big deal for you to tell him about it, and he didn't want to push it?
It's good that 5 syns hasn't been a struggle, and it's obviously working for you, but I'm trying to eat more syns sometimes because for me at least as I get nearer goal, I think I'll need to cut back my syns to reach target, so I don't want to cut back too soon. Xxx
 
Yeah totally agree, I don't want to be too strict now if it'll limit me later. I think I will ween off the red days a bit now too and see if I still keep losing well so I have the ability to reign in when I need to (like I did before!)

Am hoping it was just my body going through a weird patch before (had like 6 weeks of no real loss while sticking to plan, a plus during period that took forever to go then sort of fluctuated for ages!) as it's been fine since I cut back on the carbs a bit, going to introduce them more frequently back in now :p having a yummy green day today, * week is sort of starting but not entirely sure, really wanted pasta for lunch and feel satisfied now!
Will do my usual extra-hexy-time while in Dubai, with some flatbread/houmus fun too. Strangely not bothered about WI's right now, I really want to lose another size by Florida but don't think it'll happen, but at the same time feel less strained about my diet at the moment- which I think is a good thing! Have been treating carbs as naughty for toooo lonnnng :p

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Well done on you loss Sophie, thats excellent, will you be Man of Steeling next week?
 
I've shockingly never watched Superman films before so probably won't be :O I really love comic adaptations but was really slow on the Batman bandwagon too and didn't see Iron Man 3 because I never got into those either, gosh!
I have a fair bit of catching up to do with cinema at the mo as I haven't been in nearly a month- very unusual for me :O
Are you excited about it?
I think it's about time I snored through the Great Gatsby, have heard it's pretty dull but beautifully shot, feel like I'm so behind! Too busy..

All packed for flight tomorrow and kobo is finally all geared up after a total nightmare trying to get it work because for some reason it didn't like one USB port in my laptop :S which works fine for everything else! Seriously thought it was another dud kobo but after an hour of switching wires/resetting it/reinstalling the desktop app, yada yada, I swapped the plug over and it took off! Relieved though, excited to start 50 new books I'll never finish :p doh.

Green:
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B- Fruit, yog, splenda

L- Pasta, onions, red pepper, HexA cheddar

D- Uncle bens mexican bean express pouch (2.5 syns, though am still to find that actual one in syn lists :S they only seem to have the mexican one or the spicy mexican one...) with cucumber and cherry tomatoes and HexA2 Cheese.

Snacks- light yoghurt pot, 2 bananas, 2 mangoes

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No HexB's today but I always eat loads of extra HexB's on the flight so will carry them over!

Will probably have internet and update while out there to stay on plan, as usual. This trip will be waaay less stressy as it's just a half day shoot with a day off beforehand and a mid afternoon flight, so no horrible early mornings and lots of chill time, yay! Fingers crossed there's free wifi unlike the Saudi hotel :p

Have a nice weekend, y'all! x
 
Had a great trip actually; for once I had some time either side of the shoot rather than flight>sleep>shoot>sleep>flight (usually without any gaps, waking up to an alarm to get straight to the shoot) but it was SO much better this time! I got to spend time at the pool on 3 different days :O awesome.

I was out there to film the launch of this building, the Cayan Tower:
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I lost copyright to the proper quality footage/images I took so sorry about the crappy phone pics! The second one was taken by my colleague, I was too busy filming it but he had a tripoded camera so was snapping away with his iphone at the same time lol!

The firework display was INSANE, they were coming off the top and bottom of the building- it was so impressive!! They also had a video projected onto the whole tower- a cgi story of an alien spaceship bringing the tower to earth lol?! Kinda cool that they're having fun with it instead of taking it too seriously :p
The canapés were AMAZING. I didn't count syns on this trip or even write a food diary as I was too busy in the pool and stuff in my free time (last time in my half an hour of free time before bed I was on my ipad typing up what I'd eaten etc lol). But yeah, I stuck to good choices for most of the trip and didn't go overboard, but at the same time was kinda off plan. I didn't eat as much bread as last time though, couldn't find the yummy flat bread stuff as good as normal :( (it is called Roti apparently!) but at the event I did indulge in plenty of canapés and sweets after (chocolate dipped strawberries and mini ice cream cones with luxury ice cream and MACAROONS omgomg)

I'm not going to do a full food break down but basically- I stuck to porridge and fruit for breakfast each day then had sort of one other main meal and snacks. On my day off I had hummus with chicken and biryiani rice (they serve 'hummus with meat' options out there, really weird not to dip into the hummus but to kind of just... eat it as a sauce, lol, but nice!) and I had the leftover rice for dinner. The day of shoot I ordered a similar thing delivered to my room- rice with chicken and hummus, then had all the canapés for dinner (they werent really pastry ones or anything, they were like tiny cups/dishes of food, like chicken or shrimp or one was a caesar salad canapé! So cool!)

On both flights I was so hungry and just ate and ate :S I really don't know how to crack that but on long flights I just really feel like I need food all the time. I had mainly cereal bars (probably about 6 on the way there and 2 on the way back) and some fruit I brought with me; on the way back I had a mug shot on the plane as I was all airport flustered at lunch time, then had the plane food an hour later which was sort of dinner really, then snacked on bits. I avoided the pudding and the bread it came with though!

Ok, boring food stuff aside- I actually used the hotel gym! Twice! It was totally empty so a pretty stress free environment to have my first gym experiences. I strangely didn't feel like I was struggling on the equipment. I did about 6 minutes on the treadmill going a fairly speedy jog at level 2 (cant remember the speed though, think about 5) but that did tired me out- used to get tired after about 30 seconds of running though so 6 minutes was more than I expected! I felt like I probably could have continued but I was kinda bored :S then I moved on to a bike machine and did that for about 15 minutes until I was too bored again. I really don't know how I'd tackle the boredom of it :/ music wasn't really doing it for me. I might look into getting a second hand bike machine- it was one with a proper seat and back, rather than a saddle, which is so much nicer on the groin! If I got one at home I could probably do it for ages while watching TV or something.
It had a built in heart rate reader (when you held the bar for long enough it read it through your palms) and it said my heart rate was up to 166bpm at one point! :O cool. Is it good to have it really high? Or better to keep it sort of medium-high?

After the first time in the gym (spent about half an hour in there in total with all the ipod faffing and trying to get the right speeds and stuff, but only about 20 minutes on machines) my legs were sooo wobbly after! Both times I did stretches after as I've heard that reduces the pain later? I really need to find out how this stuff works. Then I went for a casual ten minute swim which probably helped the muscles too, didn't have any ache (except my poor back after filming with heavy lenses)

I felt cool about food out there, like making decent choices but allowing myself nice stuff (HUMMUS) too, not freaking out and trying to syn control things but not kicking the bucket on the plan either. I feel like the week before last I was kind of going a bit mad with the plan and not having enough syns or treats, getting a bit obsessed, so glad that's stopped. Need a few red days now to detox the copious amount of hummus I consumed on this trip though :p 1 tablespoon of houmus is like 2 syns, I had like a whole pot worth each time!!

I had regular fruit and yog for breakfast today but I am craving potato pancake and pasta so might ween myself back onto plan with a yummy low syn green day and then go red tomorrow when I have wholemeal rolls to use the breadcrumbs of for turkey meatballs.
I want to make my new once a week WI's on Monday's, but as I missed this Monday while away I'll WI tomorrow (since last WI was a Thurs too) but don't have high hope after flying, syn-fest and *week (finished now I think, but usually my weight doesn't settle for a few days!) but whatever, we'll see. Then back to Monday for official WI's.
 
Green today
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B: Nat FF fromage frais, blueberries, half a mango, banana

L: Potato pancake (potato, carrot, onion, olive oil (hexB1.5), eggs) ketchup topped (1.5) with cheesy pasta (HexA1) and diced cucumber side salad.

D: Tomato mexican rice experiment with passata, half a tin of mixed mexican beans, 3 small red onions and a big red pepper (had half of the final combination) topped with cheese. Not bad :p syn free but not as good as the uncle bens express pouches, not sure how to get the consistency like that...

Snacks: Sweet & sour mugshot, a fair amount of very light whipped cream (4 syns), minimilk (1.5 syns), Alpen light (second half HexB 2)

Drinks: pepsi max, 2 green teas, 1L squash, lilt zero

Syns: 7
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Hmm, wanted to be a bit lower syns than that for a few days but the munchies were calling today. Have taken some turkey mince out of the freezer tomorrow for a yummy turkey meatball red day tomorrow though :)

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