Operation Wedding Dress #5 ♥

I haven't done a proper Operation Wedding Dress update since the 29th of August! Can you believe that? Slapped wrists pour moi! So I briefly mentioned in the last but one post that I had lost about 2 stone now, and in my last Operation Wedding Dress post I weighed 13st 6lbs, I am now 12st 6.5lbs so almost another stone since the last time we had a chinwag about it. I have lost 30.5lbs in total, or 2st 2.5lbs, and have gone from a size 18 - 20 to a comfortable 14. Obviously, we are on the brink of Christmas and it's going to be quite difficult to be as strict, and I am finding that already - bit of choccy here and there - but I feel like I can see a size 12 on the horizon, and that was something I could of never dreamed of before I started this.

My ultimate goal weight is 11st 1lb according to weight watchers. I think this next stone will be the hardest to shift, but I know in the new year I'm really going to try for it. My current goal in the meetings is 12st. We now have a dog, so we try and go for walks that are about 40 minutes long and I hope to build that up, and increase the pace to a jog, then a run, but we will see how that goes!

My BMI has lowered from my heaviest weight being 34.57, to now 28.09. Don't really know what it all does but I'm glad I'm now in the 20's at least. 2lb a week loss from now until Christmas would be really nice to achieve my 12st goal by then but who knows. It's nice to think hopefully this time next year I will have my wedding dress and it's all hunky dory.

Just thought I'd show you this brooch. It's from Primark and was £4.00, and I bought it to go in my hair for a ball I went to last weekend. I just think it's so pretty, and if your are looking for brooch's for a sparkly bouquet, this might be a good one without breaking the bank. I just attached it to my side bun with a load of grips.

Just another quickie, I have found a great website called Final Stitch through a lady that tweeted me it. It's a great forum for brides to be, where you can pop on photos, details about how you and your other half met, and a great site to get plenty of inspiration! My username is 'wicktilleth' if you fancy a scout round, I have a few pics on, and will keep updating as the next 17 months whizz by. I'm doing two posts today, I have more things to write about!!

Ooo Oooo and....the sweet cart and DJ are now Booked! I didn't think we were going to have a sweet cart, but it's a really tall one and fits great with the vintage theme. I can dress it up however I want, and we have chosen 12 different sweets that are unlimited all night. I also cheekily asked the company to throw in the candyfloss machine for an hour to which they have agreed! You don't ask, you don't get. So the deposit is down on that too, just got to think of all the songs we want the DJ to play over the next year as well! 

Tilly xXx

Operation Wedding Dress Update ♥

If you have read the last few posts, you will know I joined Weight Watchers last week. I was really apprehensive about it, and nervous for my first meeting. As mentioned in the last post about #OperationWeddingDress, I found it to be a good place to be at the meeting, and all the ladies were really friendly.

Over the week, I have eaten really healthily, completely cut the crap, but allowed myself one treat on Sunday. A typical day for me would be:

Breakfast = Banana (0pts) or a Weight Watchers Yoghurt (1pt)

Lunch = 2 Slices wholemeal bread sandwich, with ham, lettuce and utterly butterly (5pts)

A Banana, handfull of Strawberries or a Plum. (0pts)

Dinner = Quorn bolognese, making own tomato sauce using passata (around 11pts)

Pudding = I'm not usually having pudding but if I do, a Solero Ice cream is only 3 points! It's all good.

So Ed and I have been shopping at Lidl on a Sunday just to get bits for the week, and fresh fruit and vegetables. Their prices are so low, we had a trolley full for £31.00! Also, their fresh produce actually lasts me the entire week, a bag of crunchy salad from Sainsburys lasts 2 to 3 days max, whereas Lidl's can last up to 6 days! That really helps because it isn't costing as much as it usually would to eat healthy. 

The only treat I had was that we went out for a meal at Barton Marina which is a lovely canal-side place nearby, and I had three courses. I was still careful with what I chose beside the pudding, a dark chocolate cheesecake with white chocolate ice cream, ooo it was yummy. I'd got plenty of points left to enjoy this treat, so Weight Watchers doesn't ban the bad stuff completely.

So, less or the boring stuff, I had my first weigh in on Tuesday, and my Sister in law came with me for moral support! I was really nervous for stepping on the scales and really hoped it would be a 3lb loss, which would make my weight 14st 6. I don't mind telling you guys, your part of the journey! So we had everything crossed, I stepped on, and it said 14st 3! I'd lost a whopping 6lbs in a week! I can't literally believe it, it didn't even feel that hard to do! I also won the raffle too and got some recipe cards, so it was my lucky week. I did myself a weight watchers curry and treated myself to a Solero to celebrate. Now for the next week!

I stepped on my scales this morning, and this is what is said.

 

Obviously my scales aren't the same as those at the meetings, there's a slight differ in weight, but 14st 0.6! I'm so excited for it to say 13st something, I won't have been that weight for at least 2 years. It really is giving me the boost to carry on going to these meetings, and I'm actually enjoying it, I never thought I'd say that! Next weigh in is Tuesday 14th August at 7pm!

Tilly xXx

Operation Wedding Dress ♥

So I've shown you a few of the dresses I love, and touched briefly about wanting to be in shape for the big day. #OperationWeddingDress is a hashtag I will refer to on Twitter if I'm discussing anything diet or fitness, which isn't that often! I tried calorie counting, because I had to be a certain weight as I skydived earlier this year (if you want to see the blog post and video, click HERE). I managed to lose a stone counting a total of 1200 calories a day and doing an hours walk here and there and a few sessions on WiiFit. This was over about 6 weeks, and I felt great. 

However, just before the skydive, we went on holiday and I was still eating salads and healthy things, trying not to gain any more lbs, but then little ice creams and pina colada's began to creep in. My willpower failed and I was just about OK for the dive, but after that my inner foodie took over again, and I've lost control yet again. I wouldn't even say it's emotional eating or anything like that, it's just me and the hubby to be love buying snacks, slobbing in front of Emmerdale, stuffing ourselves until we can't breathe. How healthy are we?  Eating out also plays a big part in our lives, as we have our brothers/sister in laws all as couples, and we love to go and have a meal altogether, as well as takeaways and god knows what else. So I've managed to put on another half a stone over the last few weeks. #FAIL.

So there we go, I've finally bitten the bullet and done it. I signed up for Weight Watchers online, as I have been thinking about doing it for months as the only way to combat my eating habits, and to get me in the right frame of mind. I was really nervous about the meeting, but it was fine when I got there. The ladies were all really friendly, I was by far the youngest one there, with all the rest being around 40+. They weighed me, calculated the points I could have each day, with a 5% weightloss target which works out to 10lbs. So, first of August, second day of it but first day after being weighed. 

I'm feeling pretty positive at the moment, I'm on holiday in 5 weeks time, so hopefully I will have lost a little bit by then so that's my first aim. The wedding dress is the constant aim, but if I have goals along the way I think it'll help. Good luck to anyone who's on it, have you had success? Also, if you are thinking about it, it might be worth just signing up and having a go, what's the worst that could happen? I shall update next week about how #OperationWeddingDress is going!

Tilly xXx