Introduction

Welcome to my blog.

I'm Emma, a homeschooling mum, married to my gorgeous dh and we have two beautiful children, J9 (ds) and E6 (dd).

I am currently hugely overweight. I will post my weight in the future but I want to lose some more weight first. I will tell you that I want to lose upwards of 5 stone.

I joined weightwatchers online last week and have so far lost 7.5lb officially. My weigh in day is Monday evening at the moment but I had a sneaky peek at the scales last night and it showed another 3lb off so hopefully should have another good weigh in on Monday.

I have tried unsuccessfully to lose weight before always losing a good 5lb in the first week then regaining that and more in the second week before giving up altogether.

This time just feels different. I have managed to rope the whole family into eating healthily which is a huge help as dh is joining me and we are supporting each other. We do have a box of 36 2-finger kit kats in the fridge but we have all limited ourselves to one per day and they are only 2.5 points and we have stuck to this really well. (Well I have - found a few wrappers out this morning that dh must have had last night but he is not as overweight as me!)

I can have 28 points per day. My meal plan for today is:


Breakfast: 30g Ready Brek with hot water and dash of milk and one sugar (will look for sweetner when we go shopping) - 3 points.

Cadbury's Highlights Hot Chocolate - 1 point

Lunch: Tomato Sandwiches (a large fresh tomato sliced onto 4 pieces of brown bread with butter (will buy light butter when I go shopping but as long as I count the points is ok) - 7 points

Dinner: Baked Potato with butter and 1 portion of skinless boneless chicken - 6.5 points

Snacks: 2 finger kit kat - 2.5 points; Banana - 1.5 points; Pear - 1 point; 1 slice of Cantaloupe Melon - 0.5 points

Total is 23 points which still leaves me with 5 points extra for some juice perhaps.

I feel really good and positive at the moment. I will succeed in this.

Have a good weekend!
Emma