Exams

My exams are starting next week. I am very nervous about how it will go but at the same time, I want it over and done with so that I can enjoy the sunshine and just get a chance to relax. Anyway, I have just been revising and nothing else. I have lost 1lb this week and I will see you next week. Got to get back to my revision!

The Royal Wedding

This has been the talk around United Kingdom all of yesterday and it is going to continue for a few more weeks. The bride looked absolutely stunning. Throughout the UK, people threw street parties and it was great to watch all the action on TV whilst eating and drinking all day sitting on my couch. If there was ever a day to truly describe me as a couch potato, that day was yesterday lol. I wish them all the best in their marriage.

Anyway back to my reality, there has been no weight loss for me this week but I have decided to share my waist measurement. When I first started my weight loss journey, my waist was 35inches and now it is a cool 30.5inches. I was more at risk of becoming diabetic because my waist was more than 32inches before. I am very happy with progress and my ultimate aim is to have a waist that is about 28inches. 

I hope you have had a good week and see you next week. 

Chocolate Cake!

So on Tuesday after a long session in the gym, my friend and I went into a grocery store to get a few essentials. Whilst we were in there, we happened to bump into this beautiful chocolate cake and we both could not stop staring at it mainly because it normally costs £20 but they were doing a promotion and the cake had been cut done to just £3. I mean, we just had to have it. And it was not a small cake...it was a birthday sized kind of cake just for two greedy people. I have not had cake in well over 6months so it tasted so good and it is safe for me to say I have more than satisfied my cake cravings for a year lol. I did eat the cake with calorie content in mind though and I think because I did not chomp down my half of the cake in one day and really keeping up with my exercise sessions, it has helped in my weight loss this week. I have lost 2.8lbs this week. I suppose it is all about how you incorporate the unhealthy foods into your diet now and then. 

 I am starting to get excited because I know very soon I will be in the 150s and also my BMI is out of the 30s.
See you next week!

Revision on my mind

Nothing much has happened for me this week. I have just been trying to eat good and keeping up with my exercise routine and keeping up also with my revision. I have so much revision to do, it's crazy. Going to the gym has almost become therapy for me and  a little break. Who would have thought exercise would ever become therapy for me? Funny, 7months ago I hated exercising but now it just come so naturally to me because I kept on going even when I didn't want to. My body has adjusted to exercise so well. So I have gone and bought a new scale and I have weighed myself. No changes this week but not disheartening for me at all. I am just glad my body if functioning well because of all the good exercise and food.

See you next week!

Stretch Marks

As I am losing weight, I have noticed stretch marks appearing on my body especially my boobs, top half of my thighs, my arms and a little bit on the sides of my belly. The ones on the side of my belly are not really noticeable but the rest are. They are significantly lighter than the rest of my body and it is a bit annoying for me. I have been reading about it and from the information I gather, I am supposing because I am still losing weight, they will either get worse or better but once I stop losing weight and I have settled at my goal, my body will try and repair them by thinning them out. I am hoping they will especially the ones on my boobs as they are quite wide and very noticeable. With all this said, yes my stretch marks do bother me from time to time but as they are not detrimental to my health the way being overweight is. It is just a little problem that I can live with happily for the rest of my life if they do not get better. 

Still eating well and hitting the gym and my body is loving it.

I haven't forgotten about dinner pictures, I will post them soon.
Have not weighed myself this week because my scale broke down on me. It said I weighed 300lbs when I stepped on it!

See you next week. 

Visualising

 I have been taking pictures of some of the meals I have had over the week and I decided I would share them with you. These are pictures of some of my lunches and as you can see they are mainly salad based. When I eat bread I eat whole bread that is super seeded. I just love the taste of it. I love salads now. I used to hate them and if I had some I would only stick to lettuce, the iceberg type because it tasted quite sweet to me. However I have taught myself to eat other types like rocket, spinach, watercress and I love them all. I can add different things in my salads like avocado, olives, carrots etc.  I have discovered that salads do not have to be boring, just adding different things makes all the difference. My salad dressing is usually olive oil and I put a mixture of garlic and parsley herbs or some black pepper granules, or lemon if I want that zest taste. Fruit is also an essential part to my diet. If I ate my lunch for instance and I did not feel full, I have a fruit to supplement that or if I need to snack. 

My gym sessions have been going great. I have been to the gym all week and I have started to run on the treadmill. It is very hard so far but, I have just started so I know if I keep it up it will get better.I have lost a little over 3lbs this week.

I am going to post some of my dinners next week!

I am back

Hello wherever you are, I hope you are having a  wonderful day or night. So I have been on a nice, quite lengthy hiatus where I have been eating as and when I please and going to the gym quite minimally. Its been quite educational in terms of me knowing how to maintain my weight because my weight has been fluctuating between 167 and 170 for the whole time I have been relaxing so I am quite happy with how well I can maintain my weight.

Anyway the sun has started to shine, warming up the beautiful land and everyone is starting to wear less and less clothing. Summer is coming and I thought it's time to end my little hiatus and continue what I started. I have made a food guideline which I hope I can keep for the next month and also a small target of losing between 5-10lbs for end of April. Hoping to achieve that goal and I am going to put the work in, because the classic line my mother likes to use, TO LIVE LIKE A KING, YOU BETTER WORK LIKE ONE.

See you next Friday.