Great success!

Hi everyone,

the work situation is still a bit crazy, but it's starting to get better. I still miss a few WW-meetings every now and hen, but I try to make the most of it! I went 2 weeks ago and had gained 1 kg (2.2 lbs). Then I didn't get to go to my weigh-in last week, but today I finally finished work early enough to be able to go to the gym for the first time since the Thailand holiday, and when I went to my weigh-in I rececived a hug from my consultant - I had lost 4 kg (8.8 lbs)!!! I'm so thrilled! This also means that I've reached my 10 % goal as well as my fourth star. Yay me! :-)

I'll update my stats now and then I have to clean the house (think positive, think extra bonus points :-)). I'll try to write more during the week!

Finally!

Hi everyone,

I'm back, finally! The holiday is most definately over, I've been extremely busy at work due to a sick colleague and have worked no less than 10 hours every day since last thursday. That's why I missed last week's weigh-in, but I was determined to go back to WW this week to get my "verdict" for having been on vacation, eating everything I want for 4 weeks and not having excersised at all since the Aqua Aerobics in Hua Hin. Well, what can I say? A cat always lands on her feet, and so do I (and I don't even like cats!): I've lost 1,2 kg (2.6 lbs)! I'm so pleased I can't even begin to tell you... I had the feeling that I might have lost a little weight because there are several trousers which are starting to be way too big for me now, but I thought that my body was just adjusting a bit. Well, it can surely keep adjusting like this!!! :-) I bet it has much to do with having lived the "WW-way" for some time now, meaning I don't just eat anything even when I feel like pigging out, but I manage to make, if not good, but at least better choices than I used to before.

I've reached 2 more goals (check out my goals to the left), and on my way home, walking (!) back from WW-class (about 1,5 km - 1 mile), I started thinking about how much more weight I have to lose, and how much I've lost already, and how much time it took me. I have always been hoping that I can reach my goal by New Years of 2010, e.g. 2 years from my start date. I have now lost almost 1/6 of my total goal, and it tooks me 3 months exactly. The past month I've only lost the 1,2 kg I lost today, I could have lost more if I hadn't been away on holiday. But I figure there will always be these kind of days or weeks when the weight loss isn't your main goal. Anyways, I think that my 2-year goal isn't that bad at all! I hope to get back on track with the gym this week or next week, depending on how many hours I'll have to put in at work, and I'm sure that'll help me a lot!

Better go for now, work starts at 7 tomorrow morning and it looks like I'll have to put in another 10-hour-day at least...

Greetings from Thailand

Hi everyone,

am sitting at an Internet Cafe in Hua Hin, Thailand. We're here for 2 more nights and will then go up to Bangkok for 1 night before flying back to Europe.

I've burnt myself badly and look awful on my shoulders and neck. I hope I will heal soon, it hurts quite badly and looks so bad. Will post some photos when I get back home.

Otherwise I just LOVE Thailand! The people are so friendly, the food so tasty (and yet so light, we're having fruit for lunch almost every day!).

I will write a full holiday review when I get home!

Measurements week 8

Here are my new measurements. I post the old ones first so you can compare. Please note that they're all in cm, not inches :-)

January 7th 2008

Calf -
Knee -
Thigh 86
Hips 140
Waist 115
Breast 116
Upper arm 41
Neck -

February 5th 2008

Calf 49
Knee 52
Thigh 84,5
Hips 135
Waist 111
Breast 114
Upper arm 41
Neck 40

March 3rd 2008

Calf 49
Knee 52
Thigh 80
Hips 134
Waist 108
Breast 111
Upper arm 40
Neck 40

Another 12,5 cm lost in 4 weeks. Wow!!! No wonder my clothes fit differently!

Weigh-in week 8

Went to my weigh-in today hoping I hadn't gained any weight, and I was lucky: I'm down another 0,2 kg (0.4 lbs). I've been naughty all week long. Had lunch out (new job), didn't write down any points, and I had a pizza on friday night (which I didn't even like, it was way too greasy and I actually felt sick afterwards). So losing at least some weight feels great! As long as I don't gain I count myself lucky. Tiny bit annoyed though beacuse I've realised that the WW scales is only counting every 0,2 kg (0.4 lbs), and today, my weight was between two weights, so really I've lost 0,3 kg (0.6 lbs), but who's counting, right? :-)

I'll have to take my measurements tonight as well, wow, has it already been another 4 weeks? Amazing! I'll post the measurements separately.

We're leaving for Thailand in one week. I've tried on all my clothes now and am happy to say that there are a lot of skirts and pants that do fit well. Others aren't perfect yet, but summer is another 4 months away, so I hope to lose much more until then.

I plan to maintain whilst in Thailand. I already checked the hotel website, and there's a gym as well as aqua aerobics at the pool. Also, I want to take walks on the beach and maybe play some beach volleyball. I hope I can keep my promise to myself :-)

Weigh-in week 7

Hi everybody, I've been terrible at writing these last few weeks, sorry! I have a good excuse though: I've got a new job!!! I went to the interview last wednesday at 10, and I was then called up in the evening and got the message that I got the job, and they wanted me to start on monday! So now I've been working for 4 days, and I LOVE it! Will tell you more about that later.

My weigh-in on monday went great, another kilo (2.2 lbs) lost and another 3 goals (3rd star, BMI below 40 and 20 lbs lost) reached. Yay :-)

Hope I'll find the time to write some more during the week-end!

Take care!

Weigh-in week 6

Went to my weigh-in yesterday, and I was down another kilo (2.2 lbs). Very happy about that! I feel very confident in my weight loss and everything seems very easy right now.

Job-wise, I'm fortunate enough to be in the situation where I can choose from two different jobs. I already got one of the jobs, and will go for a second interview for the other one tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Better go for now, my parents are here from Germany now and crave my attention :-)

Week 6 - Day 4

Still having a great week. Going to the gym really helps me to keep focused. I don't crave any special foods at all right now which I'm very thankful for. I try to eat lots of veggies (easy because I love them!), and still drink a lot of water (although I've been bad the last two days, musn't forget!). Keeps me from getting hungry between meals which is good.

On wednesday I went to a double class at my gym. I was planning on doing an aerobics class first and then a yoga class, but the aerobics leader didn't show up, so we were told that we were welcome to join the advanced class... I tried but it was just too fast for me. So I went and did some cardio instead, waiting for my yoga class to start. The yoga class was great, new leader I hadn't met before which can be a bit tricky, but he was very precise and his movements were quite advanced and challenging, yet fun to do. I was glad to see that he'll be doing this class even next week, I'll make sure to go then!
Yesterday I did a "Lift it" class, which basically is freeweight lifting in a group. You can choose how much weight you want to use, and the leader was great to, showing each move before you were supposed to do it and cheering us on. Great class, I want to take it again next week, too!

Due to working out every day, I have saved up quite some activity points, and I also didn't use up all my points yesterday which is good, because tonight, we'll go out to a restaurant with my brother. I've already looked at the menue, and I think there are quite some good alternatives that won't cost me a lot of points.

Happy news on my job interviews, too: I think I did really well on both the interviews I had this week, and I already got a callback for one of the jobs for monday. Great that things seem to work out :-)

I'll keep you posted on how tonight's dinner went!

xx

Week 6 - Day 2

The new week came to good start. I've been to the gym every day, and I've already been on one job interview today and will go on another one tomorrow. I was also offered one of the jobs I interviewed for last week, but the job wasn't as great as I thought, so I declined. I hope everything will work out fine! I have another 20 or so applications that I've sent out, so I'm sure something will turn up.

I think I really start noticing changes in my body now. Both in appearance and in fitness. Having lost 7.2 kg (almost 16 lbs) does show, although I have so much more to lose. When I look in the mirror, I think my skin looks leaner, both on my body and in my face (due to drinking lots of water I guess), and my psysical fitness has improved even from one week to the other. I took the same aerobics class yesterday as I did last week, and I was able to keep up much better this time. That of course meant that I enjoyed it much more, too! So thumbs up for the gym, I'm still the biggest girl there (at most classes anyway), but that's going to change!!!!

Tomorrow the "German invasion" will start. My parents were planning on coming next week, but my brother phoned me today asking if I minded him coming tomorrow. Of course I told him that he was more than welcome. It's a great opportunity for me to meet my family since I am at home most the time anyway. My brother will stay until Saturday or Sunday and then my parents will come on Monday. Of course I want to impress them with some fine WW-cooking :-) I dig out the best recipes during the weekend. Already found one onion pie that my mum usually does in a not very WW-friendly way, but this recipe is from a WW-cookbook, and one serving is only 5 points! We'll see how that turns out.

Well, better get ready for my workout!

xx

Week 5 Weigh-in

Hurray hurray hurray! I can't believe it! I'm down another 1,8 kg (4 lbs)!!! I really didn't think I would have lost any weight at all, so I'm very pleased with this week's outcome!

We were discussing food and excercise at our meeting today; weather to eat your activity points or not. I usually eat some of my activity points for an extra treat, but only when I feel like it. Some eat them all, some never, so I think it's up to everybody!

Well, I'll better make myself some dinner, Still have some points to use, and since I'm losing rather quick right now, I think I should eat all my points so I don't mess up my metabolism. What do you think?

Week 5 - Day 7

Sorry I haven't written all weekend... My husband came home on friday evening - and we've been spending a lot of time in bed :-)

WW-wise it's been a moderate week I think. At my weigh-in today I will probably maintain or even gain a little. I did exercise 4 times this week, and usually my body needs one week to adjust. Also, I got my monthly yesterday, and I haven't been drinking as much water as I should have... Well, nobody to blame but myself! We'll see what the scales say tonight. I'll be back with the results either tonight or tomorrow morning!

Week 5 - Day 2

I finally found a good way of showing you the goals and before pictures I've been wanting to post here. Every time I was trying to post a table, eg. the measurements, it all went nuts and the content ended up all over the page. So now I'm posting some of the important things on a webiste instead and post links to the website instead. So if you're interested in all my small weight loss goals I have (5 goals reached already, counting the first star as a goal!), just click here or on Goals in the right menu. If you want to see my oh-so-unflattering before picture (I never want to wear a riding helmet again, it seemed to push my brows all the way down to my chin...), click here or on Before picture in the right menu. If you're interested in my wedding picture (at about 105-110 kg or 230-240 lbs), click either here or on Wedding picture in the right menu.

Well, my workout yesterday was great! I feel so proud that I'm finally back on track with that and will go tomorrow as well. Probably won't be able to make it tomorrow because of my job interviews and Louice's riding lesson in the evening, but we'll see. Her mum might be back tomorrow at lunch, so maybe she'll take her instead.

Well, better make myself some lunch!

Take care all of you!

Week 5 - Day 1

I've had quite a lucky day! I've received two calls concerning some of the applications I've sent out, and I've finally landed two job interviews. I don't know if any of these jobs are that great, but it's good to at least get to go to an interview! Both interviews are on Thursday, so I'll be able to give you the update on that in two days!

I took my measurements today as I promised and they turned out quite well! I'm very happy about the centimeters lost on my hips and waist!!!

January 7th 2008

Calf -
Knee -
Thigh 86
Hips 140
Waist 115
Breast 116
Upper arm 41
Neck -

February 5th 2008

Calf 49
Knee 52
Thigh 84,5
Hips 135
Waist 111
Breast 114
Upper arm 41
Neck 40


Well, I really do hope my waist will keep on shrinking, and faster than my boobs, because I think what makes me look rather big right now is that my boobs are almost the same size as my waist... I used to have a really well defined waist, even when I was 250 lbs, but I've really grown a large tummy the last year or two...

I went to gym yesterday for the first time in 2 weeks (or was it 3?!?), and I'm going tomight and all the other days this week too. I just trust that my foot will be able to keep up, and should I feel any pain, I can just stop doing what's uncomfortable!

Week 4 - Day 7

Just a quick post, but I'm so excited, I need to share it with all of you!!! Just got back from my weigh-in, and I'm down another 1,2 kg (2.6 lbs). I'll update my stats in a second, but I'll watch CSI NY with my stepdaughter first :-) I'll also post my measurements and all my goals which I've written down tomorrow. So check back with me :-)

Week 4 - Day 6

Had a pretty good day yesterday. Stayed precisely within my points and was able to treat myself a lot in the evening. Did something I hadn't done for a while: I prepared some vegetables and low fat yoghurt mixed with sweet chili sauce and had a great dip. Only 2 points for the yoghurt (200 ml) a the sweet chili sauce (2 tbls). Yum!

Today Louice has her riding tournament, and we won't eat "lunch" until late afternoon (more like tea then isn't it?). I'll make fish with potatoes and vegetables, and the fish will be filled with light philadephia cream cheese (recipe from one of my WW cookbooks). It sounded really nice, hope it is!

Tomorrow is my next weigh-in. I think I've been doing quite well this week, keeping within my points and only cheating on my excercise. Well, I'll be better next week, I promise :-) Tomorrow I'll also take my measurements. As I said before I've bought one of these 14-week-points-journal, and every 4 weeks, you're supposed to take your measurements. I'm really excited about that, let's see how much I've lost!

Week 4 - Day 5

Nothing much to say for today yet, it's only 11.30 am and I only had breakfast and a snack so far. 18 points left to spend :-)

I however wanted to adress one very important subject: Pap smears! I had mine done on the 21st of January, and they called my on thursday to tell me that everything was fine. I was very relieved, because I was having a bad feeling something might be wrong - again. In 2006 I had a pap smear and got a letter from the hospital that there were some abnormalties so they wanted me to re-take the test. I did so in the beginning of June, and even that one showed abnormalties, so I was told I had to have a Cervical conization which I had done the day after my birthday, the 21st of June. Luckily the results came back normal, but I did have a good scare and I really donät have to re-live that!!!

So all ladies out there, go and take your pap smears regularly, and make sure your friends and family do so too! It's not painful, and it's better knowing you're Ok than having to wonder if anything is wrong.

Be safe out there!

xx

Week 4 - Day 4

The funeral yesterday went smoothly. It was very sad of course, but I got to meet people I hadn't seen for a long time which was lovely.
After the service in church there was a memorial. They served some food too, certainly nothing too WW-friendly, but I think I managed quite well. I however didn't have a proper dinner after that because I wasn't sure how many points I had used up, so I just had some WW-sausage and some fruit in the evening.

In the evening Louice had her riding lesson. She has been horseback riding for 7 years now, and she's quite good at it I think. Many of the others who are in her class didn't seem to understand or be able to understand what the instructor told them to do, but Louice was handling it very well. She seemed happy when I pointed that out to her, and she even told Lasse over the phone how happy she was with me being there (he told me this morning). So there, some stepmum bonus ;-)

We had some snow yesterday evening as well, and it was quite windy. Nothing too bad though, it's going to melt away today since the temperature is above zero already. I just hope it won't rain, I have plans for going on a walk with a friend.

More from me later, I have three emails to write!

Week 4 - Day 2

The weather is awful! Rain, rain and rain again. How am I supposed to go on a walk in this weather? I really don't feel like taking my umbrella... Well, I went to the store to do some grocery shopping instead and did do some walking there :-)

Later tonight I'll go to church with my stepdaughter. I'm a singel parent this week and next week because my husband is on a business trip to Denmark, and my stepdaughter's mother is on holiday in Gran Canaria until next friday. We actually get along just fine! It's just a question of finding things to do that we both enjoy, like certain TV programmes.

Tomorrow I'll go to a funeral. My friend's host-dad passed away, and since she can't make it from Australia, I'll go in her place. I just wish I could swap the Australian weather for the Swedish one since it's much nicer weather there... Rain during a funeral doesn't exacly lift your spirit...

Kil-o-meter.de

I was a mamber of http://www.kil-o-meter.de/ back when I joined WW for the second time, and it really helped me keep motivated. Like a coincidence, I got an e-mail from them on sunday :-) So I erased all my old data and started over. This is what I came up with:

TABELLARISCHE AUSWERTUNG FÜR TINA HELMKE HALLBERG

Anzahl Tage: 21 Tage
Aktuelles Datum: 29.01.2008
Gewicht bei Start der Diät: 131,00 kg
Aktuelles Gewicht: 126,80 kg
Kilos verloren (total): 4,2 kg
Gramm verloren (Ø Tag): 200 g
Kilos verloren (Ø Woche): 1,4 kg
Body-Mass-Index: 41,4 BMI
Prozent erreicht: 6,36 %
Kilos todo: 61,8 kg

Ziel (65 kg) erreicht am: 02.12.2008 (in 308 Tagen)

So basically, it tells me how much I've lost in average per week and per day, and when it expects me to be done with my weight loss (based on how much I've lost since the start). Of course I know I won't lose this much weight every week, but it's still interesting to see the numbers in print.

The web page is really simple to use; so Hel, let me see what your degree is good for :-)

Week 4 - Day 1

Hi everybody, didn't get to write anything during the weekend, but now I'm back! Have you missed me? ;-)

My weigh-in yesterday went well! I wasn't able to stay within my points during the weekend, so I was hoping to maintain. I did actually lose 0,2 kg (0.4 lbs) which I think is fair. I'll just watch my points a bit extra this week and I'm sure I'll lose more.

The birthday party for my grandma went fine. I knew what was for lunch and had a plan ready which I did stick to. Still, it was more points than I was hoping for, but I didn't binge and still felt satisfied.

This week, I'll try to get back into my workout regime. My foot still hurts, but I'll try and go for a walk every day and do some time on the crosstrainer. Check back with me, I'll post about my progress :-)

Have a great week all of you!

Week 3 - Day 4

Had a pretty good week I guess, some trouble at home but again, that's what's living with a teen ager is I guess. Will go to Germany in a few hours, my granny has her 85th birthday and she wanted to have a party with all her grand children. :-) I hope I can stay with my point allowance during the weekend, it's always hard when you're away from home.

Otherwise the week has brought me some good things as well. I've made two really good friends through the blog, one of them being Hel and one of them being a Swedish girl who is starting WW on Monday. I'll drag her along to my group ;-)
I really love the Internet, because it makes people meet, and everybody is equal, and then they lived happily ever after... blablabla... Sorry, feel a bit silly today, I need to send out some job applications and pack my bag for the trip, so I should better get going... Will be back sunday evening, and I hope I'll have some time to write more then.

Have a great weekend all of you!

Contest

While surfing around other WW-blogs, I found this contest at Roni's Weight Watchen page. Interested?

Check out Roni’s new contest! I can win a Nutrition Smart Scale from Eat Smart and so can you! Click here for details!

About me

I thought I'd give you the 101 on me, because sometimes I write about stuff I think I've mentioned before, and I haven't, so this is to fill in the blanks ;-)

I'm 28, will be 29 in June (born 1979). I'm from Germany originally but moved to Sweden in 1996 when I did an exchange with AFS. I liked living in Sweden very much and decided to stay! Haven't had any regrets about that. My parents still life in Germany and we see each other quite a lot because they always come to Sweden on their holidays.

After I graduated high school in 1998, I started studying and working part time. In 1999, I worked as an extra teacher because I was thinking about studying to be one. Being 19 and having students that were only 4 years younger wasn't a good thing though and put me off the teaching idea. Later that year, I started working part time as a translator, translating documents from German into Swedish and vice versa. This was the job that really changed my life, not because I did continue working with it, but because I met my husband at work. I was back then living with another guy who was what you can only describe as "bad news". When I ended the relationship in January of 2000, he started stalking me and it got really unpleasant. I was lucky to have great employers who actually let me move in with them because it wasn't safe for me to live at my old place, and that's when I met my husband, Lasse. We started dating in March of 2000, and after a year we got engaged and moved in together. We've been married for 1½ years now and we bought a house 2 years ago.

I joined WeightWatchers for the first time in 2000, right before I started dating my husband. My starting weight back then was 92,2 kg (203 lbs) and I lost 8 kg (17.6 lbs). I don't even remember why I stopped going to meetings, I guess I thought I could manage on my own. Well, big surprise - I didn't...


I weighed in again in August of 2003, at 113,1 kg (249.3 lbs), a new all-time-high (until then at least). I stuck with the programme much longer this time and lost 17 kg (37.5 lbs), weighing 96 kg (211.6 lbs). I was really motivated, but in June of 2004, two days after graduating from college, I started working in another city and had to live there during the weeks, went only home on the weekends. I continued going to meetings, but gained weight basically every week... My last journal entry was at 108,5 kg (239 lbs) in November of 2004.


I moved back home at Christmas 2004 and wanted to get back on the programme, but didn't have the motivation... New job, being back home and being able to get cosy with my family again, having nice dinners... Did a formula diet (SlimFast) in Summer 2005 and lost some weight, but it came back of course. Then we decided to get married in 2006, and I did have a goal to work towards, but I still didn't click. I got married in August of 2006, weighing around 110 kg (242.5 lbs). I then started working away from home a lot (stressful job, 120 hotel nights a year, a lot of time in the car and many opportunities to eat in private...). So I was somewhat prepared for having gained weight (I had stepped on my scales at home from time to time), but the 131 kg (289 lbs) I had as my starting weight were hard to take in anyway...


I'm currently unemployed (on leave with salary until March 31st) and have plenty of time to take care of myself, my weight loss and my fitness. And blogging of course ;-)



No excuses about it any more, let's do it!

My Virtual Model

As I was looking at other people's blogs, I saw that some were using a Virtual Model as a kind of motivation. Having had a Virtual Model designed earlier, I logged on and updated mine. There's an easy function to post you model to your blog. Just log on to MVM and start creating ;-) You can even dress up your model with all kinds of different clothes!

I did two models, one of what I look like today, and one with my goal weight of 65 kg / 144 lbs. Just press the arrow keys to swirl me around ;-)

Week 3 - Day 1

Went to my weigh-in yesterday evening hoping I'd have lost 1,2 kg (2.6 lbs) which would mean I'd got my first gold star. I stepped on the scales, and what do I see? I've lost 2,2 kg (4.8 lbs)! I was so happy! Now I've lost a total of 4 kg (8.8 lbs) in 2 weeks which is great! Especially since I haven't been able to pick up on my gym routine again because my foot still hurts. Oh well, I'll just have to try and go out on walks, we were actually challenged by our WW-leader to walk either 200 km (124 miles) or 300 km (186 miles) until Easter, meaning we have to go out and walk 30-45 minutes every day from today until Easter. I'll try and make the 300 km challenge! Walking is fun and doesn't put as much pressure on your knees and feet as other excercise does. Let's see how I'll manage!

I also would like to welcome everybody how's found their way to my blog. I read yours and hope we can inspire each other!

xxx Tina

Week 2 - Day 6

Have had 2 days with some challenges. As I wrote on Friday, my husband Lasse came home friday evening, and his daughter Louice came to stay with us too (she's 14 and stays with us 2 weeks out of 4). We usually have some kind of "nice food" on friday evening, and her choice were Tacos. We always do them in tortilla bread instead of taco shells, and one bread is 2,5 points. I should have had only 2, but I couldn't resist and had 3 instead. So 7,5 points worth of tortilla bread, plus minced meat, some grated cheese and some taco sauce (which actually has has much less points than I thought! only 0,5 points per 1 dl) and lots of vegtables (I skipped the corn). Combined with 2 glasses of wine, I think I exceeded my points allowance by 5 or so points which I guess isn't that bad after all.

Yesterday it was the big moving house day for my mother-in-law. She was really excited, had been up since 5 a.m. poor soul... I helped her unpack most of her kitchen stuff, and then we had lunch at my brother- and sister-in-law's place. My sister-in-law is a great chef and she had prepared a stew with pork and rice, some salad on the side, fruit salad for desert and home-baked muffins for tea. I tried to get as little sauce as possible as I didn't know if she had cream in it, and only had 1 muffin for tea. Hard to guess how much points that put me back, so once we got home, I only had some fruit and a 1 points snack, so I think I did some kind of damage control.

Breakfast today was good, we had a nice family talk (sometimes it's more like three people sitting together but eating individually (comes with having a 14-year-old at the table I guess...). I will prepare a late luch today, from one of my many ww-cookbooks, and will make Quinoa to go with it which Louice wants to try.

Also, big news!!! We've booked our flight to Thailand and will leave on March 10th, leaving Copenhagen Airport at 17:55 and come back on the 25th, at 18:30. I've had to change our room reservations (I'm a Hilton Honors member and have been able to book our rooms for free, one upside of travelling a lot with your job!). Now we'll go to Copenhagen by train (which was really cheap, Louice travels for free and the total cost was only 700 SEK, about $100 or £55, for a 400 km/250 mile trip one way), fly out to Bangkok, stay at the Millennium Hilton Bangkok hotel for 2 nights, travel on to Hua Hin and stay at the Hilton Hua Hin Resort & Spa for 11 nights and then go back to Bangkok for another night there, leaving Bangkok the 25th at 12:50 local time and flying back to Copenhagen where we'll arrive on the 25th at 18:30 local time. Since there are no trains back home until the next day, we'll stay one night at the Hilton Copenhagen Airport hotel. Great trip! I'm soooo looking forward to it! I really want to do good on my weight loss so I can feel confident at the beach.

Have any of you been to Thailand or even Hua Hin? What was it like?

Week 2 - Day 4

I did the thing you shouldn't do today - I stepped on my bathroom scale. I know it's stupid because it never compares to the scales at your WW-meeting, but I was feeling a bit wild and crazy, what can I say? And well, according to my bathroom scale, I haven't lost any weight at all so far this week... I really hope this is dead wrong, because I've really been a good girl, staying within my points and writing everything I eat down in my journal (I bought one of these 14-week-WW-journal to keep on track). Well, let's hope my bathroom scale is lying ;-)

Food-wise, I think I've had a great week so far. I've always made the main meal (lunch) completely from scratch (yes, I'm proud!), and in the evenings I've had WW-ready meals. I was even able to treat myself to a WW-pizza yesterday evening, a Capricciosa for 8,5 Points. Gosh, what will life be like when you'll have to live off 18 points a day instead of 25? Well, that day that sorrow (european proverb, don't know the english equilivant...). I must say being home does have it's good points. I mean, not that I enjoy being unemployed, but you have much more time for doing things like cooking and meeting friends. I met one of my closest friends on Wednesday, and I hadn't seen her for more than half a year... To my defence, she lives 300 km (150 miles) away, but still, unexusable!

Well, I better get on with my day. Hubby is coming back from working in Denmark these last two weeks, and I haven't been able to acchieve as much as I wanted to household wise... Will hopefully write more this weekend!

Week 2 - Day 2

Finally I'm on track with my blog. Had to move it from blog.com to blogspot.com, didn't like the site layouts at blog.com. So that's why there are 4 posts yesterday with different titles...

I am still going strong. Just put on the bandage on my foot again since I will help my mother-in-law with some stuff at her new place today. I hope my foot is better tomorrow or on friday so I can at least go for a light workout at the gym.

Today's lunch will be fish with herbs (some new kind of fish called pangasius which is both very tasty and affordable!). I don't know what I'll do for dinner yet, I had the last of my WW-ready meals yesterday evening. It was the best of the 3 different ones I've tried; a lasagna bolonese. I had the spagetti bolonese for lunch on Saturday and was hungry again after ½ hour... You have to have loads of salad with it to make it a good meal.

How about you guys? What do you do for lunch and dinner/tea?

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Week 2 - Day 1

Yay me! Went to my weigh in yesterday, and guess what? My first week went great and I've lost 1.8 kg (almost 4 lbs). With no excersise whatsoever with my foot hurting and all (I hurt my foot when I was leaving for my excersise last tuesday, I thankfully didn't break it but it still hurts a bit). Had a good week I think. No temptations, but I didn't feel like I was depriving myself of anything either. So basically, I hope I'll be able to continue in the same way and hopefully reach my first star next monday (1 star = 3 kg). Hopefully my foot will be better in a day or two so that I can get back into my excersise routine. That would help my weight loss along a lot I think.

This week I've already had my mother in law over for lunch twice. Made fish with potatoes yesterday and sausage with pasta today. She loved it and called me a good chef ;-) Have to love her for that! ;-) She'll be moving out of her apartment on Saturday and we'll go to her new place tomorrow with some plants and stuff ("because you drive so carefully, dear, I don't trust your husband with them!"). Have to love her for that too ;-)

I placed an order for some Weight Watchers candy last week. I hope it'll arrive soon. Was a bit disappointed with the ones I bought yesterday at my meeting though. They were ok, but I had hope for a tastier kind. Never tried them befor, they're bars called "Soft Strawberry", with dark chokolate. Well, the good thing is that if they're not too tasty, the will last longer ;-)

Well, I better sign off for now, have heaps of work to do before hubby comes home on Friday. Miss him! ;-)

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Week 1 - Day 4

I seriously need to get up earlier than I do. 9 a.m. is just too late. Easy to fall into bad habits when you're in between jobs.

Well, anyway, I'm just having breakfast. I just love porridge, so it's easy to eat healthy at breakfast.I will continue planning next week's meals later today. I have to go shopping tomorrow, and I hate forgetting half of the ingredients I need... My dear old mother-in-law (hey, she IS old, she's 91) is moving to a retirement home next week, and I've promised to take care of all the cooking. I've already found some great recipes I know she'll like, it's good to have this may cook books (even though my husband thinks I should sell half of them off).

Well, better go for now. Maybe I'll post more later today.

Week 1 - Day 3

So let's get it straight from the beginning. I'm a big girl. Always have been, but hopefully not always will be. The pretty, skinny girl in the picture isn't me, but someone I'd love to be in the future. I have started at Weight Watchers about 5 times without really going through with it (though I have been successful, hence the new start this week...).

I weighed in at my local Weight Watcher group on Monday, January 7th, 2008, at 131 kg. That is 289 lbs (just about, my converter tells me). And for my 5ft9, that's WAY too much. Why didn't I stay under the 100 kg mark once I reached it 2 years ago? Dunno... Lazy I guess. To satisfied with my achievements. Well, that's about to change, because I know it's now or never. I'm 29 in June and I want to be slim on my 30th birthday. Read a book once by a Swedish girl called Jenny Dahlberg, and her goal was her 30th, too. She made, and so will I. So there ;-)

What am I doing this blog for then? Well, no offence, but none of the "skinny" girls writing about their weight loss struggle when all they need to loose is 20 lbs do inspire me. I need to get my inspiration from elsewhere, and I think a blog is a great way to connect with people from everywhere who, simliar to me, need to loose about half their body weight or more to reach their goal.I'll try to write at least one post a day, telling you how life, excercise and weight loss are going. Also, I'll post links to other people's blogs and vlogs that inspire me!

So come on everybody out there, let's do it! ;-)