Wobble-Less Wednesday - Halloween Challenge

You might be wondering why there is a picture of a pumpkin on my blog - then again, you might not. Now that the summer holidays have passed, its time to start thinking about regaining motivation for weight loss or inch loss and making sure that the layers that we put on are clothing layers and not fat layers.

One thing that I often find hard is to keep going when I'm not seeing any results. I know I'm losing weight but can't see it so I get disheartened so I stop trying and start eating to feel better, its a vicious cycle! One trick that my old Weight Watchers leader used to use was to set us a little colouring challenge. She would give us a picture that represented the goal time frame and for each lb we lost we could colour in a bit of the picture.

This is where the pumpkin comes in! We have 8 Wednesdays until Halloween from today, thats enough time to lose a potential stone.  I'm aiming to get to my stone by Halloween and will colour in a section for each lb lost between then and now, and would love it if you fancied the challenge as well!

What you need to do is right click on the image and save it onto your computer, you can either print it out or have it on your computer and then colour in each section as you lose weight. Don't worry if you gain, you don't have to un-colour any bits of it! It would be great to see who else is joining in with this so tweet me with a picture of your pumpkin on Wednesdays and we can see how everyone is doing!

Let me know if you're joining in! xx

Christmas Weightloss Challenge

Morning lovelies, hope your enjoying your weekend.


Can you believe that it is going to be Christmas in 6 weeks, this year is whizzing away! 


Since I went back to work in September I've been on a serious health kick, and managed to lose just over a stone. Recently this has slowed down a lot and I find that I'm slipping into old habits again of being really good all day and then binging on crisps when I get home from work!


So, I've set myself the challenge. With an average weight loss of 2lbs a week that is 12lbs by Xmas which would take me down two stone this year!


Talking to a few people of Twitter they could also use the motivation so I'm going to try and post some challenges for myself as well as you guys to follow and hope that you post back each week to help keep me motivated!


So here it is, challenge one:
Take a picture of your lunch every day for a week - often we fail diets due to boredom of only eating 'healthy' food so try and mix it up!


I will post mine,as well as sharing some of my favourite lunches to help and inspire you!


So there is it, a challenge to shift 12lb by Xmas! Left me know your joining in by commenting below!




Thanks for reading! xx

Six weeks of Summer Challenge

Can you change your body in 6 weeks? This is something I really want to find out, and so this is become a bit of an experiment for the summer.


I have 6 weeks off work (thank the lord for summer holidays) and I plan to use this to get to the gym every day.


I aim to start making changes to my figure, not drastically but in a healthy and safe way that is possible for the average, working person! 


To help I have signed up to Weight Watchers online to track what I eat and record my achievements.


So, the all important measurements, this is what I am looking at but I will be tracking my weight on the scales! 


Currently I measure in at 14st 7lbs (3stone heavier then this time 5 years ago :( )


Thighs -  26.5inch
Bum - 46 inch
Hips - 43 inch
Waist - 36 inch
Bra Size - 36E
Arms - 14 inch
Clothes Size - 16 on bottom, 14 on top.


I will be measuring these once a week on a Tuesday, as well as weighing in! I have no idea what effect this will have on my body, but I don't want to go back to school in September as big as I am.


Is anyone else on a health kick like this, if so what are you planning to do and how are you getting on with it? I'm going to do a weekly update, please comment and let me know how your getting on! 

Monday Night Pledge and 8 week challenge

I'm getting worse at writing this post every week so I have decided to move it to a Monday when I am in a blogging frame of mind, ready to start the new week.

This post marks the start of my 8 week countdown to a wedding I'm going to and I am going to be 2 stone lighter! Since last weeks pledge, I have had a manic week, totally losing control at work with report writing! So this week is a fresh start.

This week I pledge to:
1) Keep drinking lots of water as I am starting to recognise the difference between hunger and thirst!
2) Get back into a high protein diet, cut down on nasty, IBS inducing carbs :(
3) Go back to spinning!!!

Weight: a scary 14 st 6

Where do you want to be in 8 weeks time with your weight loss/lifestyle change. I challenge you to take on the 8 week( or however long it is for you) challenge and let me know so that we can motivate each other! Next week I might even brave a before picture! What are you going to change this week?!