61.5 kg?

as i mentioned yesterday, one of the little goals on the side bar is to be 61.5 kg by today. you know that i had a shitty week last week and put on 1.3 kg, weighing in at 62.1 kg. but this week seems to be better. i stepped on the scales today and weighed 61.2 kg! so i reached the little goal! i'm so so happy! i'm hoping to lose a bit more by weigh in day.
the chinese tea and pills seem to be working, i pooed two days in a row! yay!

we went to see jim noir yesterday and it was wicked. i haven't been to any of his concerts yet (although we were planning to go to one and it was cancelled) and this was the last uk gig. it was in a casino in town, quite a nice place, they had really nice orange juice there. the gig was really good and quite hillarious at times. a really good show. the band that played before jim noir was really good too (although mark didn't like them much), it had the singer from monaco (as in 'what do you want from me it's not how it used to be...' - i'll have to get that song from itunes now) in it. it happens very rarely that i like both bands playing on the same night.

it's the theatre day today, we're going to see cyrano de bergerac. i haven't seen a play for ages so i'm really looking forward to it. it's in the royal exchange theatre. they have a chocolate shop there and all the products are vegetarian. i think i'll buy some. it's expensive luxurious chocolate, you know, not everyday use ;)

i'm being really good with weightwatchers at the moment and it seems to be paying off. way to go!

three good days

i'm buddying with a girl from ww boards. i think it will be great as we can give each other support and it should make me want to be really good as i'll have to 'report' my progress to her. i suggested we aim to have three good days - stick to the points and drink a lot of water. i have to try particulary hard with the water as i normally drink fuck all. but now i've got the chinese tea, i will drink 4 cups a day. so that's a litre. and i'll try to drink additional litre of water.

i've started with my chinese slimming programme today. i'm drinking tea and taking the herbal supplements as prescribed. it seems easy to stick to. i really really hope it will speed up my weight loss.

i've bought a new handbag today. we went to the lowry centre and i found one that i really liked. it's faux leather and it cost only £22 (it was discounted down from £30). i've put all my things in it and it's the perfect size.

it's the 30th of november tomorrow and one of my little goals (see sidebar) was to be 61.5 kg by this date. i'm going to weigh myself tomorrow morning and will report. wish me luck.

haribo machts kinder froh

and it made me so happy today indeed! we went shopping to asda after my tango class cause i wanted to buy some of the lovely feta cheese. they didn't have the cheese, but they had vegetarian haribo sweets! like, 10 different kinds! we bought six or seven different types. i loved them when i was a child and i haven't eaten them for ages so you can imagine how excited i was to see them! it's about time they've made them! they're not too bad point wise - 2 points for 40 g.

we also went to the lovely new chinese shop i mentioned earlier to buy some slimming herbs. i had a consultation with a chinese doctor and he recommended tea and acupuncture but i protested as i have major needle phobia. so he recommended herbal pills as an alternative. i have supply for fourty days and i believe they will help me lose the weight. basically, they should help with my shabby bowel movements and cleanse my body. i'll start the regime tomorrow.
i've also noticed they do allergy tests at the chinese place, i've wanted to have one done for ages so when i get some money for christmas i'll go have it done.

i kicked a guy at tango today. not on purpose. we were doing ganchos, i kicked my leg up against his leg, his other leg was too close and he got kicked. the worst thing was that the ganchos are supposed to be really strong and fast so he got kicked with some force! he had a very painful expression on his face! poor guy. he still says i'm his favourite dancer though :)

tomorrow, i will really do my best to drink lots of water. i really want to be 60 kilos before we go to slovakia.

some things got better

but i'm still feeling shit.

i seem to have put on half a kilo since yesterday. wtf? i stuck to the points and earnt 4.5 bonus points for walking around shops yesterday. i drank a lot. i really really hope it will drop down by sunday or i will be well pissed off. i only have three weeks to go before slovakia and i so want to be under 60 kg! i should really get my arse in the gym but i'm struggling to find motivation to get out of bed so i'm not quite sure how i'm going to make it to the gym. also, i have an excuse - i need to do shitloads of work for uni. the only problem is, i'm not doing any! so i really could go to the gym. i'm seeing my occupational therapist tomorrow, maybe she'll have some ideas. i definitely need to start studying again because if i don't, i'll be screwed. maybe if i just read the materials... do something rather than nothing...

the best news of today is that i am going to see my chemical romance. not in manchester though. we'll be going to birmingham, two days before my field trip. so yay! i can buy t-shirts and wear them all the time on the field trip, demonstrating how emo i am! (i'm not. really. seriously, i am not!) i found a shop where they still had tickets and got some! seating as well! i much more prefer seating cause i can see better (i'm small) and i don't have to stand up for hours (lazy, i know). i'm wondering who's going to be supporting them. mark said that i'll have to wear proper make up (i don't mind) and that he'll have to wear make up too! it looks like it's going to be one hilarious night!

talking about gigs, the buzzcocks and 52teenagers (mark's band) gig is soon! it's this friday and i'm looking forward to it! i don't actually know many songs by the buzzcocks, but i think it will be a good gig. i really hope they'll be nice though!

and on thursday, we're going to the theatre to see cyrano de bergerac. i've not actually read the play, even though i've got the book (naughty, i know) but i'm hoping it will be really good. i haven't been in the theatre for ages. i'm really looking forward to it. i'm not sure what to wear as i don't own any nice clothes - i only have jeans and tshirts. this is because i don't want to buy lots of clothes when they won't fit me in a few months and i don't really need nice clothes. so we'll see.

anyway, back to business. i'm not sure what to eat for lunch. i have 14.5 points left for today. i have the fantastic ready meal from marks and spencer in the fridge, a quorn cottage pie and weightwatchers wild mushrooms tortellini. i think i'll probably have the m&s meal. it's only 5 points and it's the nicest ready meal ever.
i'm going to have puerh tea after eating too. i wish i could drink it all the time, it's so nice! but at £20 a box, i can only drink it once a day. then i need only one box a month.

and that's it for today! stop by tomorrow too! :)

everything's just shit

you're probably suspecting that this won't be a happy post. and you're right, so i apologise beforehand.

weigh in today, i put on 1.3 kg this week. i expected a gain so it wasn't that much of a shock. it's still shit though. the scale showed less body fat and more water than last week so my husband claims it's just water retention. still, 1.3 kg is a hell of a lot! it took a lot of hard work to lose that. and it will take a lot of hard work to lose it again. and i am going to lose it again. the week's points are set to 0 and i'm starting fresh. and i will hope for the best.

we went to london yesterday because i was going to my saturday palaeontology session. while i enjoyed doing the palaeontology bit, i felt completely out of place. not many people talked to me, i sat on my own and everyone else knew each other. there were no other distance learners. to sum it up, it was shit. and i have to go there again in two weeks. god help me. (i'm not religious, i'm just using the expression)

i got a letter from uni saying when the field trip is. it starts on the day when my chemical romance is playing. which means i can't go see them. i was excited, remember? that's well shit. then, i don't want to go to the bloody field trip! i am shitscared and don't want to go. mark's offered to come with me and hopefully uni would agree to that. but then everyone on the course will know that i'm a loon. so that's shit as well.

the only not shit thing that's happened this weekend was shopping today. i needed a coat cause the dior one i've got at the moment, even though it's fabulous, is too open. first, we went to tkmaxx and i tried on two and i liked one of them but mark didn't so we didn't get it. then we went to the trafford centre and found a nice one in principles. it was cheap too! there was a problem with it though - the buttons under the waist were the ones you do up inwards, you know, where the hole doesn't go all the way through the fabric. i am completely incapable of doing these kind of buttons up so we didn't buy it. then we sort of gave up and as we walked back to the car we stopped in a few shops. and we found a beautiful coat in monsoon. it is absolutely fantastic. it's also a size ten. as in 10. uk 10. and that's wonderful.
we also went to this chinese shop that's just opened. i wanted to buy a gaiwan cup but they didn't have any, they had other ones that were similar just bigger. so i got one of those. i also got three boxes of tea, puerh being one of them. every time i tried puerh tea, it tasted like shit. this one is absolutely gorgeous. however, a box of 25 bags costs £20. (we got the other two teas for free today though)

so yes. you get the idea. wish me luck for the new week!

christmas shopping

i spent 6 hours in the trafford centre today, doing my christmas shopping with nicola. i didn't think ahead and wore high heels (stupid stupid me) so my feet are a bit puffy and sore now. i bought a few things but i still need to shop some more. i just have no gift ideas this year! we went to la tasca for lunch and ordered crazy amount of food. i ate about half of everything i had - mushrooms in garlic, aubergine bake and patatas bravas - some olives, bread with oil and one mushroom thingy nicola's ordered. it was all nice food, i'm happy we went, it was a lovely meal. however, i think i will put on shitloads of weight this week as i'm not doing really well (more about this later).
the last shop we went to was gap. i bought size 14 jeans on the 4th of october and couldn't even put size 12 on. today, i decided i would try as i really need to buy regular length jeans for when we go to slovakia as i won't wear heels (lots of ice). so i tried the size 12 on and they fitted great! as if they were made for me! i'm so so so happy! it means i've lost a jeans size in less than two months!

i'm not doing well foodwise. all i want to eat is crap. i want chocolate, i want crisps. and the worst thing is - i have it. i'm bracing myself for a huge gain this week. also, all this salt i ate today. we'll see on sunday.

i'm going to london tomorrow. originally, i was going for maths class but there is a palaeontology class as well so i'll go to that one. exciting!

a bad day

i'm not having a good day today. all i want to eat is crap. i've already had 2 lindor pralines, small packet of walkers light and six (6!) segments of terry's orange chocolate! so i'm way over my crap points allowance. i still have 6.5 points left for today so i won't starve but i'm really pissed off with myself.

also, i haven't done any studying. wtf is happening to me? i'm so tired and don't want to do anything. i had raised temperature yesterday so maybe that has something to do with it, but i have to bloody work! otherwise i'll fall behind more than i already am and will look stupid at the practicals in december and will be majorly stressed out in the last week of the term when i have to send my assignments off. stupid stupid me!

in september next year,

i'll be on malta! i'm so so so excited. we're going on a late honeymoon, we'll have been married for five and a half years when we go. we thought about going to cyprus first, but there's not that much to do and we don't really want to sit by the pool for two weeks. malta seemed perfect. it's really small so we can go to every single town if we want to (we're going to hire a car), it will be warm and there's a lot to see and do. i found quite a nice hotel and we looked into going there but then we found other pictures of it and it didn't look that nice. then mark found a hotel resort a bit further away from the location we originally wanted to go to (which doesn't matter cause we'll have a car and as i said, the island is so small) and that looked wonderful. it has several pools, a gym (see, i'm planning to exercise), a health spa (which i'm so going to use! i was thinking of having a pedicure done the first day) and lots of other things. it will be so cool!

malta means, that i have to be thin in september. i know the plan is that i'll reach the goal by easter next year. but with going to malta in september, i'll have to maintain for months since reaching the goal. and that is a good thing. i'll have a great incentive. i'll also want to be toned so i'll be going to the gym regularly. mark said he'd start going to the gym with me which will be great.

i'm eating quite well. i went over my crap points today a bit because i had a picnic bar which is 4.5 points. but that's ok. i'm eating a lot of salads recently - i've bought this marinated feta cheese, it's 2 points per 30 g and it goes great with everything. sometimes i run out of salad leaves and have only cut up cucumber with the cheese. it's wonderful!

in other news, i'm fucking lazy. i really really need to study but can't seem to bring myself to. i looked at geology yesterday and it was only 6 pages. so i thought - great! only six pages! - however, when i started reading it, it was rather complicated and when i highlighted the important bits, the only words left were 'and, the, will, then'. so bollocks! now i have to write notes and i so really can't be arsed! i've been also thinking about doing all the palaeontology and chemistry lectures first as i have assignments to do from both of them before christmas. but we'll see. wish me luck!

i am back!

brilliant weigh in this morning (or lunchtime shall we say as we were watching queen gig and qi until like half two in the morning so i got up late). i lost 1.1 kg this week and weigh 60.8 kg now. yay yay yay yay yay! i so will be under 60 kilos by the 18th of december! i have four weeks to go and 0.9 kg to lose. of course, now it's just 0.9 kg, i'm going to aim a bit higher - to be 59 kg when we go. that's 1.8 kg and that's doable too.

here's the chart. notice how close i am to the 10% goal! i think it's 58.5 kg.



i'm going to have chinese tonight. mixed vegetable chow mein. i haven't had chinese for ages, like, three weeks, because i had pizza on chinese days instead. but i feel like chinese and it's less points than pizza.

mark and i are looking into going on holidays in september next year. we've never been to our honeymoon because we didn't have much money. and then when i started working when we came to england, i used up all my holidays for going to slovakia twice a year.
we've been thinking about cyprus but i've looked up touristy pages and there's not that much to do on cyprus and neither of us is keen on sitting by the pool for two weeks. so i had another idea - malta. i've never been there (neither on cyprus though) and it looks lovely and it will be warm in september and there's lots to do. now we just need to find the right deal and off we go (in september). i'm so looking forward to it :)

i weigh 60.8 kilos! :D

in march i'm going to...

go see my chemical romance playing in manchester evening news arena. yay! i'm so so excited. i didn't go see them when they were playing here in october (i think) because mark said they were too emo and i really wasn't so into them then. but when i got an email from ticketline yesterday saying they're playing in march, i booked the tickets straight away. the only thing is that the gig is on the 24th of march and the semester ends on the 23th. then it's a 4 week break and i'm going to a two week long field trip during the break. so the field trip could start on the 24th but i doubt it, i'm sure they'll give us more time after the end of the semester. i really really hope so anyway cause i'm so so excited about the gig.

talking about gigs, 52teenagers are supporting the buzzcocks at the manchester academy 1 on the 1st of december. so all the manchester people, come! let me know if you need tickets.

i just talked to my mom on the phone and she said she'd get me a pda with gps for christmas. well, i'm supposed to get it myself but she's going to pay for it. yay!

i'm doing really well with food. i had banana pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast and quorn cottage pie for lunch. i've also used my four crap points on crisps and orange chocolate. i'm going to have salad for tea and i'll still have some points left.

anyway, off to watch qi, love love love alan davies. and stephen fry too!

4 1/2 weeks and 2 kilos to go

i'm going to slovakia in 4 and a half weeks. it's getting really close and i'm desperate to be under 60 kilos when i go. i only need to be 59.9 kg and i'll be happy. it will give me all the incentive to be good during christmas and resist all the food and desserts.
and there will be a lot of food and a lot of cake. my parents made eight (8!) different types of cake last christmas, each in a massive tray. i hope they'll constrain themselves a bit this time, but if not i'll just have to deal with it. i can have a bit of everything, i just need to focus on portion control - have a little slice of cake instead of five big ones and compensate. i also have a fantastic bike there that i bought and didn't use much and i told my dad to have it ready so i can bike every day. and i really will try and bike every day.

i won't be able to weigh myself while i'm in slovakia so i will have no idea about how i'm doing. this scares me a bit because i weigh myself almost every day. i know i'm not supposed to but it works for me and i go on the week's weigh in anyway. it's not that they don't have a scale, they do. but the battery went flat about 8 months ago and they haven't replaced it yet. maybe i could ask them to do it for me?

i'm also going to have my wisdom teeth taken out while i'm there. i'm not looking forward to it but it needs to be done. i've asked my dad to ring the dentist and book an appointment, or shall we say appointments, for me. maybe the dentist won't work during christmas but i don't think that's likely as the guy works all the time. well if i have it done, i won't be able to eat much for a few days.

i can't wait to have my hair done. i'm growing it and it sort of goes down to my chin and that's ok but the back is longer and i look like i have a mulet. so i need to have it cut but i want to wait until just before i leave england because i want it to look nice when i go. so i'm waiting. it was last cut at the beginning of august, so it's been quite a while. i used to have my hair cut every 6 weeks when i worked and it was great. but it would be pointless to do the same now as i'd never grow it that way and it would cost me shitloads.

anyway, to get back to the point, i need to lose 2 kilos before i go. i will really really really try hard. and i'm getting the motivation boost from two challenges i joined. the first one is paulene's challenge. the other is a challenge run by jodie from the ww student board. they both run for 4 weeks and finish just before i go home. so they should give me a kick if i need one.

i will lose two kilos in four and a half weeks! i will i will i will! (positive thinking)

so far so good

i stuck to my points allowance and to my crap points allowance yesterday! when i was hungry i had 0 point salad i bought in m&s the other day. it came with chives dressing but i don't like dressing on salads so i didn't have it. i also earnt 4 bonus points for tango. the teacher said that there's going to be 'intermediate' course starting in january, i'm looking forward to that. i'll be intermediate. ha ha. i danced with the teacher and only fucked up once. guess that's pretty good.

i've only had breakfast (2 potato cakes) and 3 segments of terry's orange chocolate today. i'm waiting for mark to have 'lunch' but i have no idea what i'm going to have. i don't have any quorn cottage pies but i've bought some falafel and marinated tofu so i might have one of those. i have never had falafel before so i'm wondering what it tastes like. does it go with sweet or sour?

i've been doing chemistry today - phase diagrams. i wasn't getting it at all when i first read it but i get it now. sometimes i wonder whether i have moments when my brain just shuts down. i have to do the chemistry assignment today and it looks quite difficult. i definitely have to do it today and send it off tomorrow. then i can write the notes from this week's chemistry lecture, do the practical from last week's geology and study this week's palaeontology and geology. if i manage to do all that i will have caught up and the next week won't be as hectic (i hope). should be fun!

i had a dream about doing geolgy practical last night, it's on mineral optics and i was drawing and describing what i saw in the microscope. can't escape studying!

demotivated

i really really really want to be under 60 kilos when we go to slovakia in five weeks. i really do. but that little gain has thrown me off a little. well, a bit more than a little. i went way over points on sunday (my weigh in day) and i ate my bonus points yesterday which i never do because i was hungry (and had a sandwich in the fridge). the result is a massive gain and i'm completely demotivated.

i got really upset last night when we went shopping because i can't drink (alcohol) and i can't eat (bad food). it's just so unfair, some people are beautiful, clever and can drink and eat whatever they want - like mark. i can't drink at all, i have to be very very careful with what i eat and my cleverness that i had when i was a child and a teenager has disappeared into thin air and i'm not even going to start with what i look like. and that pisses me off to no end.

anyway, i've decided i need to plan my meals for a while and ensure i have plenty to eat in the evening (that's when i want to eat because mark's at home and i see him eat) and that it's all good food. we bought lots of fruit and salads last night. so far, i've had potato cakes today and later i'm going to have pancakes with maple syrup and banana and some fruit and when i come home from tango i'll have a quorn cottage pie. i will stay within my points allowance and i will earn some bonus points tangoing. even if i don't lose this week, and i will most likely gain, at least i can say that i've done some damage limitation action.

a gain

i put on this week. only 0.3 kg but it's still a gain. mark thinks it's those weeks of eating shit catching up with me. i think maybe it's because i ate all my points every day rather than leaving one or two points as i did before. but, according to my fantastic tanita scale, i have lost 1.9% body fat and put on 1.3 kg muscle since last week. so it's really not that bad.

i went a bit overboard with eating yesterday though. i wanted a pizza and made mark order the large one (half margherita for him, half vegetable supreme for me) because 'everyone cheats on their weigh in day'. however, pizza hut messed up and made the whole pizza vegetable supreme. they made a medium margherita for mark for free while he was waiting. but still, i had a large pizza. so i ate over a half, leaving three slices for today. i am not going to go over points today!

we went to the mineral fair yesterday and it was ok. it wasn't very big, the one i used to go to in slovakia was bigger, but i managed to spend my whole allowance (£100) and bought some really nice stuff. i just need to order some display cases now so i can store them properly. at the moment they're still in bags, wrapped in the kitchen roll.
i was supposed to study when we came home but our room was such a mess that i decided we needed to tidy. so tidy we did and it looks much better now. i threw out shitloads of stuff and managed to create an empty shelf on which i put all my jewellery so i can actually access it now and wear it (i'm notorious for buying stuff and not wearing/using it). yay!
this however means that i have to study a lot harder today. and i will!

i've had this sleeping problem for a few months now, about half a year i think. it doesn't matter what time i go to bed or how tired i am, i lie in bed for an hour or two before i fall asleep. because i have the luxury of waking up whenever i want, it's not a problem. however, if i need to get up early (or earlier) for whatever reason, or if someone calls me while i'm still sleeping, not only i find it very difficult to wake up but it throws me off for the rest of the day. my concentration goes and i'm cranky and generally very zombie like. which is not great when i have lots of studying to do and, to be honest, i would love to wake up at eight like a normal person and study.
so i mentioned the problem to my shrink - he always asks me what my sleep's like anyway - and he suggested we increase the amount of my mood stabiliser evening dosage as it has slight sedative effects. so we did and i'm falling asleep a lot easier. and this morning, i had to get up at half nine (i normally wake up at half ten, eleven), i woke up ok and i'm fine. so i think it's helping and i'm so so glad and i'm hoping i will keep getting up earlier and earlier.

i had physio today (that's why i had to get up early) and claire was squeezing the shit out of me again, i was gasping for air at times. it bloody hurts, but i believe it will help, together with the exercises.

new start of the week and only 5 weeks before i go to slovakia. and i need to lose 2 kilos! i need to kick my ass in gear!

a bit better

a fantastic thing has happened today. i was looking through my jewellery today and found a tiffany bracelet - one like this- that i bought last christmas. i bought in on ebay so i couldn't try it on before i bought it and when it came it was too small. well, more like my arm was too big. although at the time, it looked impossibly small. so i tried it on and it fits great! i can't quite believe that. i'm so going to wear it all the time now ;)

the four crap points a day challenge is going well! i've not gone over the four crap points since i set myself the challenge (ok, so it's only been two days) and i feel better already. i don't crave anything because i still can have a bit. and that's the way it's supposed to be, i think.

my qi series one dvd came in the post the other day and it's fantastic. i haven't seen quite a few episodes from series one so that's even better. some of the outtakes are hilarious and i love love love both stephen fry and alan davies.

i'm going to a mineral & gem fair on sunday. i'm so looking forward to that. i've never been to a mineral fair in england so i don't know what it's going to be like but i'm hoping it will be more mineral and less gem. but we'll see. i hope stuff will be relatively cheap as well so i can buy loads!

i shall finish this post by waving at hannah who's reading! hello hannah! :)

too much crap

i'm eating too much shit food. i always stay within points, that's true. but i use lots (and i mean lots) of points for crisps and chocolate. a couple of weeks ago i bought guylian, i love the shells. they're 2.5 points for two of them which is not too bad. but if you eat five of them... also, i've rediscovered terry's orange chocolate. again, three segments are 2.5 points. and the walkers light crisps are 1.5 points for a little bag. i know, this seems like a reasonable amount of points for treats. but it is not very reasonable to combine them all in one day! and that's what i've been doing for a while.
so i'm setting myself a challenge. i can only use 4 points on treats a day. i think that's reasonable, it means that i can have chocolate and crisps if i want to. but i can't have double portion of chocolate and two packets of crisps. and the challenge starts today! (and i've already had both - chocolate and crisps)

talking about challenges, paulene is starting a new challenge in a week. it will only last for four weeks which is great for me as i'm going to slovakia for christmas and want to lose as much as i can before then. so good timing!

i've bought these stuffed peppers in marks and spencer the other day, i think i'm going to try them today. they're only 2 points per pepper so i'm hoping they'll be really nice. although they have courgettes in them and i hate hate hate courgettes. but i can fish them out, can't i? i'll report on the taste once i've had them.

anyway, i better get back to studying as i'm still a week behind. although, today i'm going to start studying this weeks lectures so i definitely am catching up.

size 10

i eventually got around to study yesterday but decided to do geology instead of palaeontology as there was less of it. it was an easy peasy chapter as it was on physical properties of minerals and i remember all that from school and the competition. well, all apart from the names of the shapes of crystals in english, so i have to learn those sometime.
i'm not quite as lazy today, i read the palaeontology, highlighted the important bits, wrote notes and all i need to do now is rewrite them (that's what i do, i know it's a bit longwinded but it helps me learn). i'll do that either after tango today or tomorrow.

i totally forgot to blog about my new pyjamas yesterday! what am i like? so, here's the story.
i was a bit fed up on sunday so mark and i went to the trafford centre to look for christmas presents. we looked around shops and didn't really find anything.
then we went to la senza. i wanted to get measured because i thought that maybe because i've lost weight, my boobs have shrunk a bit. i just wanted to get nice bras with moulded cups and it's impossible to find any in size 32e (i'm not complaining about the size, i'm complaining about the lack of bras). all seem to go up to a d cup, exceptionally up to a dd. so i thought i'd give la senza a try, even though they never had bras in my size before. well this time, they had loads! i found three that i liked, although one of them was only available in 32dd. i asked the lady to measure me and yes, i'm still an e cup. but it doesn't matter because i bought these two nice bras that i found there.
i also took a really cute cow pyjama in the fitting room. i have one just like that already, only in a different colour and slightly different writing, but essentially, they're the same. the one i've got is getting a bit roomey and it's a size 12. so i tried a size 10 on and it's perfect. i don't like my pj's to be tight, i like a bit of room. the size 10 is perfect. now, i know i'm not a size 10. i know they make the pyjamas bigger. but it still makes me smile that i can wear a size 10 item and it fits me perfect.
and, i also saved a fiver, they give 10% student discount!

i managed to go over points yesterday. not on purpose, i forgot to track 1.5 points for crisps and thought i had 1.5 left and ate it. only later i remembered i had crisps as well. i didn't actually bank minus points as i had enough bonus points for the day to cover the point and a half, but still. i don't like going over and i don't like eating bonus points. so i'll just restrict myself a bit today.

lazy

i had my physio this morning. it was rather painful, the lady was pressing on my back and moving it slightly. she said that the reason why it hurts is that it's stiff and inflamed. and by pressing, she mobilised the joints. it hurt, but the exercises i'm meant to be doing got easier so it must have done me good! i'm supposed to do my exercises three times a day now, so altogether it's 15 minutes. i know it's not a lot but it's still more than if i didn't do anything. and they're helping my back so that's the most important thing. i can't believe i have waited for years before i went to see a doctor about my back, it could have been sorted ages ago! stupid me!

so the physio was good, but it made me get up about two hours earlier than i'd normally get up and it completely threw me off. i came home, went back to bed, slept, woke up and still felt tired. it's four o'clock now and i can't make myself study. i'm tired and my concentration is off. it's bloody annoying! i'm going to bite the bullet and study though, i'm still a week behind and even it doesn't sound like a lot, it is about 25 hours of studying. so i better get my arse in gear.

dietwise, i finished dead on points yesterday and i have 9 points left for today. i'm not sure what to eat, maybe some quorn and pineapple or something. i really want to do well this week.

a silver star

i lost a kilo this week! a whole kilo! yay! so i weigh 61.6 kg. only 6.6 kg to go! it's only six weeks to go before i go to slovakia and oh if i lost a kilo each week it would be so great! but i'm going to stay realistic, it's probably not going to happen. but, it's funny how if i'm losing progressively more and more each week (that is, if we forget the two weeks when i stayed the same). i'm not complaining!

weightwatchers online gives you a star for every 7 pounds you lose. the first 7 pounds lost is awarded by a silver star, any additional 7 pounds by a purple star. today, i got my silver star! how exciting is that? here's the chart.



lovely to look at, isn't it?

also, my water reading today was better than before. it was actually 50.1% - above 50! it's usually below 50 and mark just shakes his head when he sees it ('you need to drink more!'). body fat % is seems to be going down too.

yay yay yay!

vegetarian chicken soup

we went shopping for food yesterday and i had an idea of making a vegetarian chicken soup. i've never made it before, but it turned out really nice and it's only 3 points per 250 ml. so for all you vegetarians out there, or non-vegetarians who want to try it, this is how you make it:

you need
1 l of water
200 g quorn chicken style pieces
2 vegetable stock cubes - like knorr, not oxo!
babybell cheese
thin pasta - you can use nests
4 black pepper corns

method
put quorn pieces, vegetable stock cubes and pepper corns in water and cook for 10 - 15 minutes
in a separate pan, make pasta

when it's ready, put diced cheese and pasta into a bowl and pour soup over it.

it's lovely, tastes like chicken soup, it's low in points and it's made in a very short time.

so that's what i was doing yesterday. that and palaeontology. it was quite a nice change from chemistry. i wrote the chemistry assignment on wednesday and posted it yesterday. so it will get to the teacher on time and everyone's happy. today i'm doing geology - how the earth works. it's basically about heat sources and convections, water and oxygen. quite interesting and not too difficult. but there's a mapping practical part and i've not looked at that yet. hopefully it won't be a nightmare.
oh, and this morning, my compass and my hand lens came in post. they're very nice! i love gadgets!

i'm a bit annoyed today. i weighed myself yesterday and it was very good and i weighed myself today and i weigh a lot - and i mean a lot - more than yesterday! maybe it's because of all the soup i've eaten, maybe the vegetable stock cubes contain a lot of salt and i'm retaining water. hopefully i'll go back to yesterday's weight by sunday. if not, i'll be very annoyed!