Grrr.....

Not a bad week at all. This week has been a week of walking, I think we did a total of approximately 15 hours in all!!! I think we averaged 60 to 90 minutes per day and on Saturday it was 4 hours! We decided to leave the car at home and take the children, with Simon's mum on the train to Carlisle. The children loved it, Daniel has never been on a train before and Megan was about 3 the last time. I made a picnic lunch and pointed everything, including some WW goodies so that we didn't feel like we were missing out. I also found some WW mini cookies in Tesco that were 1.5 points per bag and we all had them at Costa with our "skinny" hot chocolate!

I was planning to do Fast Start this week and did follow it for at least half the week without any problems. Then after speaking to some other WW members I became concerned about the number of activity points I was earning and not eating. Lots of people have said that you must eat half of your activity points or your body will go into starvation mode. So I decided to end the Fast Start and eat up activity points to try to prevent this happening. Most of the time I felt like I was eating just to use up the points and usually on bad things. More fool me!!!

I got to WI this week concerned as to how it would go with all the messing about changing plan and then almost gorging at the end of my week. I had lost half a pound. I was pleased but a little frustrated to say the least. I didn't feel it was right eating all those points when I wasn't hungry and I didn't listen to myself. I am a little dissapointed that I was "following instructions" and it didn't do me all that good. I am however, still very happy that I have continued to lose (albeit only a little) making my total 18lbs since I joined at the end of January.

This week I am going back to basics. I am just going to follow the plan on my 24 points a day. I will try to excercise everyday, whether that be walking or something more vigorous, but I am not going to specifically schedule anything in. I will tally up my activity points, but only so I know I have a little leeway if I do feel hungry and want something else to eat. I have had smaller and smaller losses over the past 3 weeks and I would just like it if I could be averaging 2lb a week. Then I would be a happy bunny!!

and finally, NOTE TO SELF: Always listen to my own body and not other peoples hot air!!!!!


Sarah x