What happened to April????

April has been and gone and my blog remained update-less. Oh well. My weight wasn't doing much either so it doesn't really matter.

In the last 2 weeks I've lost a total of .5kg which doesn't sound much but it's pretty good for me. My leader has suggested that we email our trackers to her which is fabulous. It certainly keeps you honest and good. I was sooo good last week but only lost .2 which was a disappointment but this week I cracked the 87kg mark. Woot! This has given me motivation to continue.

I spent some time this afternoon planning this week's dinner menu. That's something I haven't done for a while. This is how it looks:

Wednesday: Curried prawns
Thursday: Chicken & Cashew stir fry - STGTBT Book 2
Friday: Oriental Pork - STGTBT Book 4
Saturday: McDonald's - I have a Seared Chicken Deluxe Burger without cheese, 6 points
Sunday: Tortilla Stack - STGTBT Book 3
Monday: Pork in Plum Sauce - an old WW recipe
Tuesday: Mongolian Lamb but it will be chicken - STGTBT Book 3

So onto today's pic........ this was tonight's dinner and very yum it was. Curried prawns from STGTBT Book 2. I made it exactly as the recipe except I added more vegies and omitted the chilli powder. I loved it! My DD said it was a bit spicey but still ate it so that's good. Other big news here this week was the purchase of a rice cooker. Fabulous!

Happy happy

I'm happy to report another loss this week. It was only .3kg but that's my 4th loss in a row! So my total loss for March is 1.7kg so I've made my goal this month (makes a change). It's happening very slowly but I'm not being 100% good so I only have myself to blame for that. However, I'm still happy to have the scales go down even if they're only going down .3 per week. A loss is a loss is a loss.

Last night's dinner (of which there is no pic) was the Zuccini slice from STGTGT Book 1. Divine! I worked out the points as 3 for 1/4 of the whole thing which is pretty good. Tonight's dinner is homemade pizza. I don't put any cheese on mine anymore. :) Also we're off to a concert tonight. My friend, me & our 2 daughters are all going to see Crowded House. Woot!

MIA

It seems to be a trend among my blog buddies at the moment. We're all faffing around not losing much. I actually did have a loss this week, half a kilo. I haven't been all that bad in the past few weeks but nothing was showing on the scales. Who can explain that? Anyway, this hopefully will give me a bit more motivation to continue.

In keeping with my last couple of posts, here is my dinner from tonight. It's based on Annette Sym's Chicken Homestead Pie from STGTBT book 4. I don't actually make my own pastry and I add lots more vegies than in the recipe. This one has mushrooms, shallots, capsicum, cauli, carrots & beans. The sauce is made with 4 sachets of cup-a-soup mixed with milk. When boiled, it thickens up beautifully & is pretty tasty. Tonight's was a mix of cream of mushie, spring veg & cream of chicken. 5 points is the total for 1/4 of the pie using reduced fat puff pastry.

My lunch

Here's a pic of my lunch today. It's brown rice, capsicum, cherry tomatoes, feta, chickpeas & balsamic dressing. Very yum & very filling. I've been a bit bored with my lunches lately so I'm trying to mix them up a bit. This recipe came from the March issue of WW magazine.

Last week I had a hormonal gain of .6 and this week I lost it again so I'm back to 87.8. The reason I didn't lose more was due to my late-night eating which again has become a problem. For the last 2 nights though, I've been good so am hoping for a loss this week too.

Dinner

This was my dinner tonight. I made a couple of recipes from the February issue of the WW mag. The chicken lovely legs were marinaded in a mix of oil, garlic & herbs and then oven baked. Yum! The tomatoes are stuffed with rice, cream cheese, paprika, tomato and herbs. They were good but I think they'd be better with different cheese, maybe parmesan.

Two posts in one day?

I was just playing around in Excel seeing what losing 1.5 kg per month would do to my weight by September & the end of the year. So then I thought, what would 2kg & 2.5kg per month do to the amounts? Well here is the result:

	-1.5 per month	-2 per month	-2.5 per month
Today's weight	87.8	87.8	87.8
February	86.3	85.8	85.3
March	84.8	83.8	82.8
April	83.3	81.8	80.3
May	81.8	79.8	77.8
June	80.3	77.8	75.3
July	78.8	75.8	72.8
August	77.3	73.8	70.3
September	75.8	71.8	67.8
October	74.3	69.8	65.3
November	72.8	67.8	62.8
December	71.3	65.8	60.3

Interesting isn't it? I can't believe the difference .5kg per month makes to my September total! If that's not motivating, I don't know what is. :)

I went to the meeting!

So this morning I got myself together & went to my WW meeting for the first time since 21st October. I wasn't expecting a loss - and by that, I mean a loss since last week cos I sure knew that I had lost since October! But I had a loss - .4kg which is pretty good considering the change from home to WW scales and wearing more clothes to weigh (you know; looking half decent in public! LOL). So I've now paid copious amounts of $$$ for 13 weeks. I didn't want to go the WW unlimited route cos my credit card is not looking very happy at the moment so I paid in advance. Yes, I know it costs me more but it's gone from my bank account & not accruing interest on my cc so probably doesn't cost me more at all.

Anyway, so my weight when I last attended WW was 90.4 and today is 87.8. Bring on 86!

Oh & one more thing.....this makes my total loss in January 1.5kg which was my mini goal. Woot!