The Start

29th April 2015.

I am ashamed as to how out of control my weight gain has become. None of my clothes fit nicely anymore and i constantly have to wear tights or leggings when i go out as my jeans just dig in uncomfortably. This is a wake up call to myself. I decided to upload this picture as motivation to myself to keep going and to show where my eating habits have gotten me. Hopefully this photograph will also help me when i feel like i just want to sit down and watch Netfilx for a whole day while munching on bags of crisps and fizzy drinks. Its time to train my mind and body into not giving into the cravings of wanting to eat all this manufactured, chemically made junk food. (sorry about the messy mirror)

The stats.

Week One.

Weight -          10 stone 12
Arm -              12.4 inches
Under Bra-      31.6 inches
Belly Button - 38.1 inches
Bum -              39.3 inches
Thigh -            22.7 inches

Day one.

Diary.

08:30 | Got in from work and went to bed.

15:55 | Woke up for a cup of tea and a yoghurt and returned to bed with a headache.

17:15 | Helped Ben clean the kitchen and made my tuna sandwich for work.

18:00 | Sat down to eat my weetabix, yoghurt and strawberries.

19:00 | Got ready for work.

19:45 | Left the house to catch my bus.

20:20 | Arrived at work, it looked like a busy night son I ate my tuna sandwich had a drink of squash before starting at 20:30.

23:15 | First 15minute break, drink of squash.

01:15 | Second 15 minute break, eat the left over sandwich tuna and drink of squash.

02:50 | Lunch break. Starbucks coffee soya frapp.

03:15 | Ate homemade sweet potato curry with mixed veg.

07:00 | Finished work.

07:40 | Arrived home. 

08:30 | went to bed.

The food in detail.

Today I wanted to get bang on track and kick off the week with a slimming world extra easy SP week to boost the weight loss. This plan allows you to eat all the S (super) and P (protein) foods you want with the added extra of one HE-A (healthy eating options a, which is things like your cheese and milk) and two HE- B (healthy eating options b, which are things like bread, cereals and soups) I prepared all my foods thinking I was right on track and when I came to my dinner in work I noticed my curry had the dreaded sweet potato which is not a super food. Sigh. Another through back was when I went to get my coffee I asked for a small (8syns) and they only had medium cups left so that turned into a whopping 12syns on coffee. However you are allowed 15 syns a day and my ending total is 14syns, and the sweet potato is a free food in slimming world and the welcome pack book stated that it is no biggie if you do have a free food instead of super free food all it will do is slow down the weight loss. 

So here are the slimming world facts and calorie intake in depth below.

Breakfast

Muller light vanilla yoghurt, 99cals and free on slimming world (SW) 

Tea, free on slimming world  

Unsweetened almond milk in my tea is 26cals for 100ml and counts as a HE-A

Pre work snack 

2 Morrison value weetabix, 134cals and counted as HE-B

Muller light vanilla yoghurt, 99cals and free on SW

200g strawberries, 60cals and a super food on SW

These were mixed all together and left in the fridge over night (sort of like overnight oats) 

Lunch in work

Two slices of Morrisons wholemeal bread, 172cals and counted towards HE-B 2 

Princes tuna in spring water, 118cals and a free protein on SW

Morrisons own Mayo light 1 tbsp 41cals and 2syns. 

This was mixed into the Mayo with a sprinkle of vinegar.

Iceberg lettuce, 5cals and free on SW.

Dinner in work

Modified version of slimming world chicken curry as one, I'm a veggie (but eat fish) and two I didn't have some of the ingredients. (I'll post a recipe next time I make it) I'm unaware of the calories on this as I made it a few days before and didn't track my ingredients. However it is free on SW and when using my fitnesspal app to search "slimming world sweet potatoe curry" it came up as 250cals so that is what I am using for this at the moment.

200g frozen mixed veg, 150cals and all super foods on SW

Drinks

One glass of mango and orange sugar free squash and four glasses of Vimto no added sugar squash in work. Starbucks coffee frap with soya milk medium, 222cals and 12syns on SW

Food stats.

HE- A ✔️

HE-B ✔️✔️

Syns = 14 out of 15

Off track with sweet potato in my curry on what was meant to be an EESP day.

Total calories 1376cals (you don't actually have to calorie count on slimming world but I like to to see how much I'm eating but I try not to let the number effect what I eat as that is not how slimming world works.)

I also weighted and measured myself before work today so hopefully I will get those figures up in a post tomorrow to get the tracking process started.

Comment below if you have similar blogs so I can follow, or even if you have any suggestions or questions 😊

Introduction

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I'll try not to waffle on too much but I just wanted to give you some background as to why this blog is now coming into action. 

I'm not going to lie but this blog is NOT a fashion blog nor is it a beauty blog. To be truthful I work a 52hour week and I'm either in my pj's or in my work uniform and have no time to prance around in the lasted fashion and spend hours on my hair and makeup every day (my wardrobe is full of clothes which are about 4 years old) I do however take my hat off to those that do have the time to blog fashion, as I do follow a few, so thanks.

This blog is more of a diary type blog which looks into the struggles of working shifts and trying to keep fit. I will blog my diary as to what I ate and when, my workouts and when I fit them in and some extras like what I listen to when working out and my updates on my weightloss/fitness progress.

I've always struggled with my weight all through school I was a size 16 and dropped to a size 12 in 6th form. While back packing for a year in Australia In 2011 I lost a tone of weight and was at my smallest of 9stone 5 which I kept up till 2013. My daily routine would be go to work, have half hour lunch break where I'd eat fruit and have a diet coke, return home to work out for 30miniutes using a DVD and if I wasn't too sleepy I'd make food but more often or not I'd go to bed hungry. I wouldn't socialise, it would be work, workout, sleep, repeat. Everyday. Not healthy. 

Fast forward to the present and I'm living with my boyfriend ben, who has a very sweet tooth, I work shift work of 52 hours a week and I've got myself back to a hefty 11stone. 

Over the years I've tried slim fast, 1200cal diet, 5:2 diet and weight watchers. All of them you lose weight on but as soon as you go off the track you put it all back on.

My friends introduced me to slimming world this year but sadly due to my working hours I can't commit to a group as I don't always have the same day off. Sigh. However after hours of searching on eBay I finally found an affordable (£12) slimming world starter pack 2014. It has all your syn foods, your free foods and explains the diet. I've been on and off it for the past month, the results are awesome when you follow it and when I don't follow I haven't put on any weight.

A few extra things that's inspired this blog;

- People say that EVERYONE has time to work out

- people say that taking pictures of everything you eat keeps you on track

- people struggle and need motivation to keep going.

So here I am, a 25 year old shift worker struggling with her weight and having trouble finding the energy and time to work out. You will get to see everything that crosses my lips, the amount of free time I have, what exercise I fit in and most importantly if it actually works. 

I'm not looking for a six pack and massive shoulders, I'd just like to feel comfortable in my own skin and get the wobbly bits less wobbly.