Week one

Well I wouldn’t say it was easy, but it wasn’t that hard.

I have put the WW app on my phone, where different foods have been assigned different point values and you get points for exercise as well. there are quite a few things (vegetables, fruit, fish & eggs) that are zero points so plenty of scope to pack it in and still not exceed the daily limit

My daily points allowance is currently 30 and I started the week with an additional weekly allowance of 42 which you can have whenever. If you don’t use up all your daily allowance some of the remainder gets added the weekly allowance. My weekly allowance peaked at 58 on Friday, but needless to say a couple of bottles of beer  with the occasional glass of red wine I finished the week still with 31 weekly points in the bag -= only going well over the daily limit on Friday and Saturday.

I walked to work Tuesday – Friday and got a few more steps in at lunchtimes, did a walk around the neighbourhood on Saturday, before doing a 4.5 mile circuit of Glen Tanner on Saturday afternoon, I got a couple of miles with just a couple of walks to the shops on Sunday. In total a magic 35.8 miles walked in the week.

The outcome was me weighing in this morning at 16st 1lb, 7 lbs less than last Monday. This is brilliant news, but it has to be tempered slightly. Last Monday I weighed in after a rather heavy weekend, so I was potentially a bit inflated, and they would have been easy lbs to lose. The weather was terrific all week, so I managed to walk into work & home and out every lunchtime (except Monday). I had no business lunches to avoid, although Wednesday was a bit of a trial with two people in the office having birthdays – so I had to avoid cake and samosas. All in all a very good week to kick off the diet and exercise plan and I am under no illusions that it will always be this easy, there will be more difficult weeks going forward

7 down, only another 43 to go.