halloween

i'm just having an hour long break for my lunch. i know it's almost seven o'clock. but i woke up late - at around eleven - so i had breakfast quite late too. and then i had to study and study and study.
but i'm enjoying it. yesterday, i did mapping practical from geology and i managed to construct a geological cross section of a line of section! i was so pleased, i usually don't understand maps at all! but it was explained really well and there were pictures showing how you do it so it really was idiotproof. still!
i also ordered a 0.3 pencil and some H leads because that's what you should use for the cross sections. that's great because i love stationery and would buy tons of it. actually, sometimes i do. so i welcome any opportunity to buy some.

i don't have a tango class today, not sure why, maybe because it's halloween. it means that i can study more but also that i'm not doing any exercise. but to be honest, at the moment, i'm trying so hard to catch up that i don't mind. i need to do an assignment from geochemistry this week and i still need to study two more lectures before i can even look at it. i'll manage, even though my spanish (i didn't go yesterday cause i needed to study) and my exercise regime will suffer for a little while. although, i'm doing my back exercises in the mornings and in the evenings. they only take five minutes and they bloody hurt. but still, it's exercise and i'm hoping it will help me.

not much more to report, i'm eating as good as always, staying within points, but having treats too. i'm wondering what i'll weigh next sunday. i definitely want a loss!

nearly a kilo!

i lost 0.9 kg this week! i'm happy happy happy! it means that i have less than 8 kilos to lose and that's not so bad, i think! also, it means that i only need to lose 2.7 kilos before christmas to be under 60. it's eight weeks until christmas, but i leave for slovakia in seven weeks, so i really only have seven weeks. but if i lose 0.4 kilos every week, i'll be under 60 by then. and that would be truly wonderful :)

here's my weightwatchers weight loss chart



it doesn't look like a lot to go before i hit the 10 % target, does it? it's about four kilos still though. but if i am really good, i'll lose them in no time!

i might have a pizza today to celebrate the almost-a-kilo-loss - within points of course - as i had chinese yesterday and don't fancy it again today. but we'll see. half of the medium italian pizza hut pizza is 12 points. i'm not sure if i want to use that many. i'll decide depending on my hunger levels later.

i bought new boots today. i wanted ankle/half calf boots and when i looked at debenhams website, there were nice half calf boots that weren't leather. they cost £45. so i went to try them on today and they're lovely and even though i can't zip up the right one to the top - about one cm to go - you can't see that bit as it's usually covered by jeans. looks like my right leg is fatter than the left, how weird! anyway, they were discounted down to £33.75. i have extra 10% off with the debenhams card so they ended up costing me just over £30. how good is that?

0.9 kg! yay!

kundalini yoga. or not.

i woke up reasonably early today. i had planned to go to a kundalini yoga class. i put my new gym gear on, i still like it yay and headed to town. i waited and waited and no one came. no teacher, no students. so i assumed the class was cancelled or something. i was a bit annoyed. i was considering going to the gym instead but i was put off and hungry. and tired. so instead, i went home, ate some soup and went back to bed.
maybe it's a good thing it was cancelled as i will be going to london on saturdays because my uni runs some saturday sessions which look like they can be useful.

so no yoga for me today. or any exercise, for that matter. i'm planning to go to the gym tomorrow, but there's a slight problem. mark's got a gig and he has to be there for three. so i'd have to go quite early (i would do the whole programme which would take me a like two and half hours) and i'm not sure i want to do that. i have to study and if i get up early i won't have the energy. so i don't know.

doesn't look good, does it?

but, i'm going for a physiotherapy session for my back on monday. i'm not sure what exactly they're going to do with me as it's my first session but perhaps it will involve exercise.

foodwise, i'm torn. i can't decide whether to eat chinese noodles today or not. i have the points, over twice as many points even. but it's the weigh in day tomorrow and i'm scared they'll make me retain water and i won't lose as much. and then, i will want chow mein tomorrow anyway, so... maybe i'll just eat half a portion of mark's noodles?

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i decided to have noodles with beansprouts. i ate about 3/4 of it and i gulped a litre of water right afterwards. so i keep going to the toilet every ten minutes but i don't mind as long as it flushes all the salt out and i'll have a loss tomorrow.

wish me luck!

a healthy shopping trolley

i just have to show you this. look!



this is our shopping trolley from about two days ago. all healthy food! there's the obvious healthy stuff, two quorn cottage pies and a potato salad. the potato salad has mayo in it, but it's 60% less fat, and really, it's just 1.5 points per 100 g. so not bad. and it's very nice with quorn southern style burgers.

of course, mark had to ruin this perfect trolley by buying microwave pizzas (for him) and frozen chips (for him).

i didn't go to the gym yesterday because mark needed a haircut and the appointment available was exactly when i would have gone to the gym. so i went with him and walked around shops. i went to debenhams and bought new gym outfit! all the nike stuff was 20% off, i tried on three things - one pair of trousers and two tops and loved the trousers and one of the tops. so i got them.
it's weird, because a couple of weeks ago, i went to selfridges and tried to buy some gym clothes. i tried on like 10 pairs of trousers and 8 tops (seriously) and nothing looked good. i've lost weight since then, but not a really significal amount.

today, i'm going to cook savoy cabbage soup. i like it a lot and i've never cooked it before. my mom gave me the recipe yesterday though so i should be ok. i'm quite looking forward to making and eating it!
apart from that, i'm going to study geochemistry today, something about bonding. should be fun!

busy

i know i haven't posted for a while and i'm sorry. but i have a valid excuse. i have shitloads of studying to do. i'm trying to catch up as i've missed the first two weeks of the term and even though we're in week 4 now, i've only just started looking at materials from week 3. i'm determined to catch up by week 6 and that means that i have to work really hard.

i kinda wish i didn't have to go to spanish anymore because i could use that time to study for uni or rest. but it's not to be. the course finishes at the end of november so still a whole month to go. i also go to the tango class on tuesdays and that's cool, because it's doing something different, my brain can have a rest from studying and is engaged in a different activity.

eating is ok, i'm staying within points. the exercise suffered this last week because i was taking antibiotics and painkillers and it really is not a good idea to combine these with exercise. but i'm planning to go to the gym tomorrow evening. i'm also going to go to kundalini yoga classes on saturday. it would be really good if i could get into yoga again and i've never tried kundalini yoga before.

i can totally see how busy people forget to eat. i had breakfast, a couple of guylian shells and have been putting off lunch since about half two. i have to leave for the spanish class in 45 minutes so i better go and make something or i'll be starving otherwise!

no loss no gain

i'm 63.5 kg again. i'm kind of happy with that as i really ate shit food all week, deliberately though. i was hoping for a little 0.1 kg loss, after all, i've stayed within points every day and i've managed to earn 17 bonus points, but it didn't happen. oh well. however, according to my scale, i've lost 0.9% body fat and gained 0.5 kg of muscle.

last week's body fat %: 30.2%
this week's body fat %: 29.3%

last week's muscle weight: 42.8 kg
this week's muscle weight: 43.3 kg

this means i've reached one of the little goals - to have less than 30% body fat. yay!

i can open my mouth ok now, i can chew ok, although i can't bite chunks off food, like i can't eat an apple unless i cut it up. so there's no need for me to eat shit now. i'll go back to my normal eating with little treats every day. and once i've finished taking the antibiotics, i'll be back in the gym. so there should be a loss next sunday! ;)

still here

hey, sorry about not writing for so long. i was just feeling generally shit - my tooth hurt (and still does, more about that later) and i have a cold and i'm just blah.

the stupid tooth wasn't growing. it was infected. i went to the dentist yesterday and he gave me some antibiotics which are bitter as fuck but i think are helping as i wasn't as swollen this morning. although it still hurts. the eating was a bit shitty the last four days or so because i couldn't open my mouth. i had soups but i needed to have something calorific that wouldn't be big or hard so i had guylian sea shells and i had crisps as well. i always stayed within points though, but it was really bad eating.

of course, i've not done any exercise. i'm supposed to go to a yoga class on thursday night, but i haven't been yet. because of the bloody cold. hopefully next week. also, a girl that comes to my tango class is a yoga teacher. she's teaching in a yoga centre that's quite easy to find in town and they have lots of classes. so i was thinking i could go on fridays when mark's practicing. we'll see.

ill

i have a cold. mark's had a cold for a few days so maybe he's infected me. although he claims that we got infected together and it just took me longer to get ill. i'm annoyed because i want to go to yoga on thursday and if my nose is stuffy, i can't go. but it's only monday so maybe it will clear up by then.

the tooth is a bloody nightmare! i was in agony all night so i had some paracetamol in the morning and it's a bit better now although it still hurts. it hurts a lot more when i open my mouth, i stupidly made some toast and ate it for 5 minutes (i seriously timed it)! so i think i'll stick to soups and yogurts from now on. i'm considering having all the wisdom teeth taken out, but if it hurts so much when they're just growing, how much will it hurt when they're ripped out?

spanish today - i can't say i'm looking forward to going, i'm ill and i definitely will have to open my mouth a lot. but i don't really want to miss any classes.

right! back to the geochemistry!

yay! i love weightwatchers!

you have probably guessed that i lost this week. and yes i did i did i did! 0.8 kg! so i'm 63.5 kg now. how exciting is that! very :) i also lost some centimeters - i measure 74 around my waist (74.5 cm last week) and 83 cm around my stomach (84.5 cm last week)
here's my weight loss chart from the weightwatchers website (if you click on it, it will get bigger):



i get a real kick out of looking at that chart. the line's going down, not straight or up and the 10% goal is getting closer and closer.

i'm now doing these equations in my head - i have 8 weeks until we go to slovakia. if i lose 0.8 kg every week, i'll have lost 6.4 kg by the time we go. this means i'd weigh 57.1 kg. that would be so so so amazing. but, it probably won't happen. i can always try and hope though!

right, this was the good news. the bad news is that one of my wisdom teeth is growing and it hurts like hell. especially when i open my mouth. last time this happened, the tooth chose a perfect time to grow - when i had my surgery. they say you can't hurt in two places at the same time, but i certainly did. my dentist has recommended on numerous occassions i have them all taken out but i'm such a chicken. but i'm in a process of booking a consultation with an orthodontist and if they say i'd need to have the wisdom teeth taken out, i'll think about it.

0.8 kg! yay!

new machines

i went to the gym today as planned and the new machines are cool! they have these 'wave' machines that simulate freestyle cross country skiing and are quite hard work. there's also this 'power plate' machine, i think once i've done my current exercise programme for 6 week, i might ask tim to incorporate the power plate into the new programme? it looks quite cool.

this is what i did in the gym today:
*5 mins warm up on the bike
*15 mins bike - intensive - covered 6.53 km (together with warm up)
*tricep dips - 3x12
*chops - 10 kg - 3x12 - these are bloody evil!
*abs
*lower back extensions 2x20
*calf extensions - 45 kg - 3x12
*10 mins on the wave machine - 1.12 km
*10 mins crosstrainer - 0.53 km

i didn't work as hard as last sunday, but i'm doing the harder half of the programme tomorrow.

weigh in day tomorrow. i'm quite excited and am hoping for a nice loss. but we'll see.

a pack full of goodies

i got my weightwatchers goodies delivered today. the points calculator is so small! i'm glad cause i don't have that much free space in my bag. now i'll be able to check point values while shopping! i still have to fill in the journals, i want to have every single week written down in a journal as well as online. that way, i can get meal ideas when i'm stuck and when cancel the ww online membership after i get to the goal (which i won't do straight away, i'll have to maintain for a few months first), i'll be able to check what i've been eating and stuff.

i also decided to put stickers in my filofax for each day i've stayed within my points allowance. so basically every day since i've started weightwatchers. i couldn't remember when i actually joined so i checked and was so so surprised to find i joined on the 24th of september. it will be three weeks this sunday and it doesn't feel like it at all! it feels like i've been on it for a few days, maybe a week! bizarre!

it's a gym day tomorrow. i'm quite excited because the gym was being refurbished this week and it only opens tomorrow at twelve. there should be some new magic cardio machines that burn calories hundred times quicker and stuff.

other than that, i'm acting like a proper student now. i've been studying palaeontology all day. it's so interesting but there's so much of it. i'm already two weeks behind as i've started late, but i want to do it properly - making notes, reading it a few times, trying to actually remember stuff, you know? not just read and highlight and move on without taking anything in. i also want to write condensed notes on index cards - this should definitely help me with revision before the exams. can you tell i want to do really well?

weigh in day soon! will i do well? i hope so!

goal reassessment

maybe you've noticed that i've changed the main goal. well, the goal itself isn't changed, just the time frame. it used to be 'to be 55 kg and fit by christmas 2006'. now, it's 'to be 55 kg and fit by easter 2007'. i've changed it because there's simply no way i'm going to get to the goal by christmas. don't get me wrong, i'm definitely going to give it my best shot and try to get as close to the goal as i can but i think that to expect a weight loss of 9.3 kilos in two months is unrealistic. i would definitely like to be under 60 kilos by christmas though and i think that's doable. so i added 'little goals' to the sidebar and i'm going to cross them off as i reach them. the first one - get back to the gym - is already crossed off :)

i've been craving chinese - mixed vegetable chow mein - for a few days now. i considered having it yesterday - i could have saved the points - but decided against it. it's a takeaway and it's full of salt and while it's ok to have it once a week, it's not a good idea to have it every other day. that way, i can look forward to my weigh in days because that's when i allow myself to indulge.

i received my uni materials this morning. so exciting! i'm going to have only three subjects before christmas - elements of palaeontology, introduction to geology and introduction to geochemistry - and after that i'll start another two - foundations of mineralogy and earth history. i'm very keen on palaentology, geochemistry and mineralogy.
all the texts are on cd's so we're going to get a laser printer and then i can start studying tomorrow! :) how exciting!

geology

that's what i'm going to study. i actually studied geology, i did a year in slovakia but didn't really do it properly. not that i was getting pissed all the time or anything, but i found two jobs - one in an internet cafe, the other one teaching english - straight away and didn't go to school at all. i managed to pass my exams which was a miracle in itself, but i didn't get good marks. after a year, i moved to england, did an art history course with open university, got a good mark, started ancient greek course, fell ill and couldn't study anymore.

but geology is what i've always wanted to do, when i was at school i did really well in a geological competition and loved my rocks (or to be precise, minerals, i much more prefer minerals to rocks) ever since. my parents weren't too keen on the idea of me becoming a geologist, they would have prefered if i studied languages or management or economics. but they're happy for me at the moment, i think they're just happy that i'm even considering studying and that the uni has offered me a place. and, after all, i'm doing my spanish and i do get by in english.

so this is my second chance and i'm not going to fuck it up. i'll plan, i'll be organised, i'll make notes, i'll do all my assignements on time. i will have a geology degree before i'm 30! yes yes, i will be thin and have a degree in geology. good plans :)

last night, when i was putting the papers they sent me from uni back into their envelope, i discovered they sent me a promo cd as well. what am i like, not noticing it straight way? doofus. anyway, there are sample lectures on it and i was so surprised! all the materials are in .pdf format and even though i know you can have pictures in .pdfs, i thought it would be just plain text with some black and white diagrams. well, there's shitloads of pictures! i'm really happy because it looks so much more appealing than if it was just text, but it means we have to buy a colour laser printer when we planned to buy a monochrome one. but nevermind! we're going to save on pda anyway, because there's no way a pda would handle these kind of .pdfs so i'm not getting one anymore. it's a shame cause they're cool, but if they're no use to me then there's no point in spending money on one.

talking about spending money, i ordered some stuff from weightwatchers yesterday. i'm getting:
*a points calculator - this should help me in the shops
*two copies of the journal - even though i have points tracker online, i'd like to write stuff down so i can just flick through and see what i've been eating. and, they're half price at the moment!
*fruit bars - i love fruit bars and they're only half a point each
*caramints - i've never tried these, but they can be quite nice. they might help with assignments, i used to eat large amounts of soft mints when writing essays, they really really helped tremendously

it's the tango night today, i'm wondering what we're going to learn today. should be fun!

a student

this morning, mark woke me up and said i had a big letter. i opened it, rather slowly because i was so weak from sleep. it was a letter (and student handbook and health and safety for field trips) from university. they offered me a place! how exciting! it's just provisional, but i should be getting a confirmation letter from the registry and then i enrol and pay and i'm a proper student! how exciting! i'm going to be a scientist! :D

i also had an appointment with a back doctor today. the first thing he said was 'so, you're 24'. but i explained that i had back problems since i was about 12. he made me do all the bends and arm lifts and then he said i had a slight scoliosis which affects whichever joint and so i need to have some physio and see if that helps. i really hope it will.

i tried two new fruits today - asian pear (lovely) and cherimoya (disgusting). i ate only 16 points out of 20 allowed, but i really couldn't think of anything else to eat, i wasn't hungry and i didn't want to eat bad stuff just to eat all the points.

i also earnt one bonus point for half an hour walk in tesco ;)

a loss! and a good one!

i lost this week. i lost 0.7 kg. i'm really really glad. i updated my weight tracker on the weight watchers website and looked at the chart. it looks so much better now with the line going downwards rather than just straight. this loss was accomplished only through eating well - i always stayed within my points allowance - although i managed to clock up 17.5 bonus points for exercise. the exercise was mainly walking, although i did some dancing too. now i'm going to add 'proper' exercise to my good eating. i'll go to the gym three times a week as planned, although next week i can only go twice as they're refurbishing the gym and it will be closed on the day when i'd go.
i also lost centimeters, my waist measurement was 74.5 cm and my stomach measurement was 84.5 cm. yay!

talking about gym, i went today. it was bloody hard work and even though i was there for an hour and a half constantly exercising (well, i had little breaks between the sets), i only managed to complete half of the resistance bit of my programme. this is ok, tim, the instructor who made the programme said to me yesterday that 'it's quite a programme' and i can split it into two sessions if i want to. at that time, however, i thought to myself that of course, i'll do it in one session. this is what i did:

*5 min bike - warm up
*15 min bike -intensive workout - i managed to cover 4.6 miles in the 20 minutes i was on the bike
then i did the resistance training bit:
*3x12 chest flyes - first two sets with 10 kg, the last one with 5 kg
*3x12 pullovers on the ball - 5 kg
*3x12 lateral raises - 2 kg - i really suck at these, i have really weak shoulders
*3x12 lunges - first set i was doing my 'special', hard lunges - you lift your knee up, step forwards, bend the other leg, knee up, step backwards, knee down, knee up, step forwards.. you get the idea but it was so hard that i had to do normal lunges during the other two sets. still, tim said that not many people can do the hard lunges and i'm so unfit at the moment so i'm still proud i managed at least one full set on each leg
*3x12 ball squats - i was meant to do these with 5kg dumbell in each leg but my legs were really gone after the lunges so i did the squats without the extra weight
*3x12 bicep curls - 2 kg
and then it was back to cardio:
*20 min cross trainer - intensive workout - i covered 3.21 miles
and stretches, these were nice, but i bet i still won't be able to move tomorrow

inbetween exercises, i was practicing (or, tried to practice) kneeling on a ball. tim said it's great for the core muscles. i couldn't do it at all yesterday (he could and it looked so bloody easy), but i'm getting the hang of it now, i can't stay on for a long time, but it's much better than yesterday. the whole thing earnt me 6 bonus points.

as i have to split the programme in two, i've decided i'll do the programme on saturdays and sundays and i'll go to a yoga class on thursdays. the class is led by a different instructor than the one that i know so i'm hoping the classes will be much better. but we'll see.

and, i'm finally having the mixed veg chow mein today! it's well deserved and it's still in the points allowance, of course ;)

gym

i finally got my ass to the gym today. i made arrangements yesterday, to make sure i'd go. as the personal trainer hasn't called me to book a session as she was supposed to, i made an appointment with one of the gym people. they don't do personal training in my gym, but the instructors there make plans for people. last time i had a plan made for me, it was a bit shit. but i thought i'd try again.
and it was a good move. the guy spent an hour and a half with me and created a very 'different' plan. he showed me how to use everything and checked if i was doing everything right. i didn't do hell of a lot exercise today, maybe half an hour altogether, but i reckon it will take me about 1.5 hours when i do it properly. which will be tomorrow. i'm kinda excited.

yesterday, we bought a new scale. it measures body fat %, water % and other stuff as well. my water percentage last night was 49%. that is shocking. i really have to do something about drinking more water. however, we'll have to take the scale back tomorrow or on monday as the front buttons keep stopping working. they don't work, you give it a bang, they work again. the scale cost £70 so i'd really expect everything works 24/7. it was the last one on the shelf though and i really like it. maybe they'll order us a new one. we'll see.

i'm still eating well, sticking to my points. i can't wait for tomorrow's chow mein though.

good intentions

i bought a coat. a mac, to be precise. black one. i wanted to buy one for a few weeks now but couldn't find one that i liked. i saw one in miss selfridge that was quite nice but when i tried it on, i looked as if i was pregnant. now, i have a fat stomach, but it really is not that fat! then i saw a nice coat in selfridges, but it cost £75 and as i will really wear it for short time only, i didn't want to fork out that much. there was a nice coat in an advert for matalan, so we found a store nearby and went. the coat was nice, cost £25 and didn't fit me at all. oh well. but, i found one in debenhams. the nicest of them all, can be buttoned up in two different ways, it's a size 10 (!) and it was discounted from £45 down to £30. can't really argue with that. so i bought that one.

we came home, i ate at 5.30, so to have 2 hours between a meal and the gym. i really wanted to go. but then, i wanted to wear the coat. i knew i would be wearing it tomorrow, but i wanted to wear it today. so i decided to go for a walk instead. mark came with me and we walked for an hour and a half. so not too bad.

on the nose front, i think i'm developing a black eye. there's no bruise as yet, but there are quite a few red dots which weren't there before. like, bruisy red dots. bruisy red dots that become a bruise. the nose still hurts when i touch it.

today is the first day i've used all my points. i usually leave half a point, or one, or two. but today, i managed to eat them all! i had six points left for my dinner and i considered a chow mein. but that would mean that i'd have chinese twice this week already and that's just not right. so we decided we'd have chinese on sunday. it's the best day to have a nice big salty meal as it's the start of a new week.

only two full days before i weigh in. i must be good!

beware of the glass walls!

the first tango class was good. we learnt pretty much the same stuff as we did during the open day taster session but we practiced more. people who go there seem nice and the dancing earned me 3 bonus points.

afterwards, mark and i went to the trafford centre to hunt for jeans. i blogged earlier that i had to take my 30/32 jeans back because of weird stitching and 'itchiness'.
i wanted jeans that would be nice and soft, really comfy, a nice colour and wouldn't make me look fat. we looked everywhere. i tried on a few pairs but they either didn't fit well or they felt weird or were too expensive.
and then, we went to gap. i tried on size 12 and size 14. the size 12 was way too tight. size 14 fitted great. the only problem was they were not regular length but long. but mark convinced me the length was good so i got them. they are lovely. but, they're a size 14 :( it feels like a step backwards. but, they fit me well and i'm losing weight anyway, so i'll hopefully wear size 12 in no time. in december, i definitely will. maybe even before then.
and the great thing about them is that they cost only £29.99 (or 29.95, can't remember)!

now, the glass walls. the institute where i go for my spanish lessons has classrooms with glass walls and glass doors and glass everything. today, i walked into one of them (a glass wall, not a classroom). like, i completely smashed into one. it was so so painful and embarrassing and my nose is now swollen and is going slightly blue. see what colour it is tomorrow. hopefully, it will stop hurting soon. i feel like a complete twat, this has never happened to me before and hopefully won't happen ever again!

foodwise, i had a good day. i had lots of good stuff, and some naughty stuff too (weightwatchers cakes). which is good because it makes me feel like i don't deny myself anything, you know? if i want a chow mein, i'll have a chow mein. if i want chocolate, i'll have chocolate. i'll just work it into my points, make some very good choices around the naughty treat and eat my cake and have it!

tomorrow, i'm going to the gym. 7.30 pm. sharp.

chestnuts and pomelo

sorry about the lack of a post yesterday, but i had a busy night. i had my spanish class - it was the start of the new course so there are some new people there and of course, a new teacher. we had to do some embarrassing 'breaking ice' exercises, but now that's out of the way, it should be ok.
after spanish we went to take my jeans back, you know, the 30/32 ones, because there was a weird bit of stitching on the side. also, they were a bit itchy - how can jeans be itchy? - so i asked for a refund rather than an exchange. then we went to look for new jeans for me but it was a very brief look and we didn't find anything.
after that, we went to tesco as we didn't have any food at home at all. everything we bought was pretty healthy, apart from a bag of chocolate bars - they're only 1.5 point each so not too bad. and, i discovered pomelo! i love grapefruit and i used to eat at least one every day. then i started taking carbamazepine and the leaflet says you can't eat grapefruit. i saw this pomelo and it said it tasted like grapefruit. so i got one to test. i had it after tea and it was alright, tasted kinda like grapefruit but it's too much kerfuffle to eat so i don't think i'll be buying it again. i also bought chestnuts! i love roasted chestnuts so that's what i'm going to do with them today. should be lovely.

i'm sticking to my points every day and i'm getting some bonus points from walking. i know i should go to the gym but i don't want to have a shower there and everything so i think i'll start going in the evenings. just a few times a week. i can't go on mondays and wednesdays, cause those are my spanish days, i can't go on tuesdays cause it's the tango night (that's exercise though!) and fridays are out of the window too as mark's got band practice. so, i can go on thursdays, saturdays and sundays. three times a week, that's more than enough. so i'll aim to go this thursday.

talking about tango, today is the first lesson. how exciting!

same

we went to see the goo goo dolls last night and they were really really really good. i enjoyed it a lot even though my back was killing me. mark got a bit pissed (five pints) which was quite funny. i'm wondering how long it will be before they come back again but if it's a long time then i've seen them twice this year anyway so it's all good.

i weighed myself this morning as scheduled. the figure on the scales was somewhat disappointing - 65 kilos. i haven't lost, but i haven't gained either. i know that the scales were lower than that earlier this week so it is a bit frustrating. but i've not pooed for about 4 days so perhaps that's showing. i've stuck to the points every single day. i've managed to bank a lot of points. i got 7.5 bonus points. i did everything right. and i will keep doing everything right. and i will bloody lose next week!

i also need to update you on the stomach measurements. i've been using my slendertone for a week and a bit now, although i've not used it in the past couple of days because i've got a rash from a belt buckle that contains nickle on my stomach so i don't want to irritate it. anyway, good news, everyone. when i measured last week, the results were as follows: waist - 77.5 cm and stomach - 87 cm. and this morning: waist - 76 cm and stomach 85 cm. so a 3.5 cm loss overall. that's quite good! i shall start using the magic machine as soon as the rash goes.