New Award

Today at SW I got my two stone award! YAY!

Awards

This week in group I got certificates:  Slimmer of the Week and my Club 10!

That means that I have lost 10% of my original body weight. I am amazed. If I do 2lb this week that's 2 stone gone!

Don't they look lovely lined up like that?!

I also did 4 miles at the gym yesterday, and 4.5 this morning, so there's that going on as well.. here's to a good week.

Pancakes!

YUM.

My SW consultant posted a recipe for pancakes on our Facebook group and I decided to make it. I've had a bit of a shocking week foodwise as I've been really emotional and angry at the world, but today we decided that instead of indulging in syn-heavy ways we would try out this recipe.

I am so glad we did. They were scrumptious!

Training So Far

Going from fat to fit in 11 months is no easy task!

I've been going to the gym recently and I like recording what I've done so I can look for progress later on.

So that was 15km on the bike and 2.5km on the treadmill on Thursday.

I did a 2.5mile walk on the Friday, then today (Monday) I did 1km on the treadmill and then 4km on the bike. (I was in a horrible mood today and didn't want to be at the gym. Haha.)


I also now have had my induction at the leisure centre so can go there whenever I like. Hopefully, I'll be fighting fit in no time ('no time' being, September 2014!!)

Comparisons

A week ago I was showing my other half these photos, and he started showing his friends too. I am so pleased he is proud of me - I am proud of me too.

The left hand photo was at my nephew's christening, late May. The right photo was at a friend's wedding, August 30th. There are 21 pounds of difference between the two. I hadn't really realised how I was changing until you see it side by side like that.

Happy happy!

Week Three Weigh In: Slimmer Of The Week!

SO PROUD!

I am Slimmer of the Week! I lost 4.5lb! I got my half stone award and sticker on my book! 

Look at the haul I got for being slimmer of the week:

Every group member brings a piece of fruit or something and the person that's lost the most weight that week wins the basket full. There was an extra banana but I ate that before taking the photo.. but it still shows how much I've got! Very happy :)

Here's to doing the same thing next week! This week is mostly going to be sponsored by 'finding nice things to make with scan bran' (which I detest) - favourite idea so far is a spiced cake recipe, I'll keep you updated!

YAY!

Steak!

On our anniversary, we decided the best thing we could have would be a beautiful steak dinner. Homemade peppercorn sauce (free), butternut squash cubes (free, though didn't work out as planned - not crispy enough), salad - and the main event, the biggest piece of meat you have ever seen.

I left half of mine and had it with salad for lunch the next day!

Never let it be said that SW isn't full of possibilities for having all the things you love!

:D

Cape Cod Chowder

Well this is a true thing of beauty. One of the recent SW magazines had this recipe in there and we decided to try it, given that we had fish in the freezer from a clearance shelf at Tesco and decided we fancied sea food.

Smoked river cobbler, prawns, mussel meat, and bacon cooked in milk with leeks, parsley and probably coriander (the boyfriend made it, and he got himself some plants this week and loves the coriander) -  it was so good we had it two days in a row.

This is probably one of my new favourite SW recipes. It's also 'fancy' enough that if we had people over for dinner, I could serve it and be proud of it and no one would know it was on plan!

Fake-Take-Away: Indian - Heart Dopiaza!

We were looking for cheap meat and I (perhaps foolishly) picked up a pack of sheep hearts. "Hey, shall we go for it? Live on the edge?" I said, knowing full well that it'd be me that cooked them. "Yes!" was the resounding answer I got back. I then proceeded to scowl at them in the trolley all the way around the supermarket, as I wondered what kind of ridiculous idea it was for me to point them out and how was I going to cook them and what if they still had blood in the cavities and and and ick.

They were delicious. So tender and beautiful!

I made a Dopiaza curry in the slow cooker - literally dopiaza is double onion, so there is a spicy onion sauce and plenty of onions chopped into it. We should have had more vegetables with it, I know that, but we wanted a 'takeaway' experience. I also made a SW raita which was absolutely beautiful - and I've since made it again to have as a salad dressing. The boy reckons he could just eat it on its own with a spoon!

Success!

Beef Olives

Look at these:

I have never had these in my life and my other half is trying to convince me that they're a common thing and it's me that's odd for not knowing what they were!

Beef Olives are (apparently) minced beef and onion formed into balls and wrapped in bacon, then baked. And usually served with gravy, but we didn't fancy it.

They were nice, don't get me wrong! But I've never heard of them!