After my +1lb gain the previous week after my cousins wedding blow out I got straight back on track. It’s amazing how just that single gain can totally focus you back to the plan!

I decided in my head that I really wanted to get past the 1/2 stone mark this week and had planned to stick rigidly to the plan and even cut down on the ‘free’ pasta/ potatoes and rice with meals and substitute them with things like carrot chips, cauliflower rice ( which is my new favourite thing by the way) and more speedy free veg.

I was also able to keep my syns to a bare minimum by filling up on free food instead. The strictness paid off and I had a fabulous 3lb loss! I will be honest and say it gives you a massive boost  when you have a loss like that and it definitely spurs you on for the next week. This loss also took me over my 1/2 stone mark and made my weight loss ( for me anyway) something that I can definitely do, if that makes sense.

From that weigh in day on the Monday I then managed to come down with the throat infection my eldest had before he started uni! So a full weeks course of antibiotics were prescribed but for at least 3 days I couldn’t eat properly. Effectively you would think this would be fabulous for weight loss, however I had to rely on the ‘free’ foods that were easy to eat but filling, so I stuck with mashed bananas and pots of yogurt. This meant no speed food at all for these few days and then a day or two of eating cautiously while my throat recovered. I definitely relied on the free foods and didn’t have enough speed in my diet. I also wasn’t able to drink as much as I normally would as anything cold would really sting my throat and warm drinks seemed to help, which meant I drank much more tea and coffee.

I was a little nervous today at weigh in and although I wasn’t overly happy with a 1/2 lb loss it was still a loss, so going in the right direction at least.

To make up for it though I won the weekly raffle…………again and came away with some fab goodies that will definitely come in handy.

Now it’s onward and upwards for next week. I have set myself a target of 1 1/2 lb to get back on track…………………………so wish me luck as I have my son’s 16th birthday on Friday and we are going out for a curry!!