Day 280 - 22 Charms & 15 Spacers (WeightGAIN 0.4 lb)

Thursday 31 January Summary

Day maximum: 28,0 points

Day´s Bonuspoints used/saved: 27,5/0,5

Week´s Bonuspoints needed/saved:0,0/0,0
Day´s excercise: 60 minutes

(REQUIRED 6) water/tea: 6
REQUIRED 3) vegetables:3
(REQUIRED 2) fruit: 2
(REQUIRED 2) fat: 2
(REQUIRED 2) calcium: 2

(T0tal weightloss 70,1 lbs) Next Pandora charm at 92.6 lbs
(Total exercise: 2300 minutes) Next Pandora spacer at 2420 min

(my UNIQUE Pandora reward system, read about it here and here)

Goal 4: 1st centennial - loose 100 lbs/45 kg

Weightgain - stablising +0.4 lbs

A week wrought with dinners, luncheons and dates, and a terrible craving for anything sweet. This week I plan to stick to the letter of the WW law., as I really really wish to break through the 130 kg/286 lbs barrier.

I have noticed that using more sugary food items over the festive season (December) has created a kind of mild sugar addiction. So, I have decided to ban added sugar as much as is feasibly possible for a week, a sort of detox programme.

This week I will spend on upping my motivation as I find it is not as strong as it was in May.

Excercise

This week I also start aerobics class on thursday. It will be fun to see how I botch that up! I have the co-ordination of a mule! But I am very much looking forward to it! As I have indicated before, I have grown to like excercise. yesterday after WW weighing I walked home (30 mins) and enjoyed every mooment of it thoroughly.

Yet I find it hard to schedule my exercise in the mornings. I detest having just a half an hour to sit down to sort of get my morning started, and so I sacrifice my excercise time, and have a full hour morning time. So I do not go walking every morning; now I get up at 6 AM. A solution would be to get up at 05:30 AM, but that is pushing healthy living just a tad TOO far. I would have to go to bed earlier. But I love my evenings and I will NOT go to bed any earlier than midnight.....NOT!

I am going to see if I can fit it in in my evenings.

Breakfast
3,5 points
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2,5 - 250 ml skimmed curd
1,0 - 1 tbs agave syrup

Lunch
7,0 points
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4,0 - 4 slices of nut bread
0,0 - lettuce
2,0 - smoked chicken
1,0 - 1 tbs mayonaise light

Diner
14,0 points
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14,0 - 1/2 pizza

Various
0,0 points
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4,0 - Kitkat

Day 279 - 22 Charms & 15 Spacers

Wednesday 30 January Summary

Day maximum: 23,5 points

Day´s Bonuspoints used/saved: 29,5/--

Week´s Bonuspoints needed/saved:0,0/0,0
Day´s excercise: 30 minutes

(REQUIRED 6) water/tea: 6
REQUIRED 3) vegetables:1
(REQUIRED 2) fruit: 2
(REQUIRED 2) fat: 2
(REQUIRED 2) calcium: 2

(T0tal weightloss 70,1 lbs) Next Pandora charm at 92.6 lbs
(Total exercise: 2240 minutes) Next Pandora spacer at 2270 min

(my UNIQUE Pandora reward system, read about it here and here)

Goal 4: 1st centennial - loose 100 lbs/45 kg

Sugar, sugar cravings and glycemic value?

I withstood the urge to take hot chocolate milk at the office, but it was a struggle. all else is as it should be.

Today I looked into the magic world of sugar *grins as I know Sayre is becoming an expert on this. White sugers have a high glychemic value (hope I spelled that right), means they are release into the bloodstream like lighting and you get a sugar "high", which is followed by a "low" as the sugar is used for various processes or stored as fat. But because the low is really low you start craving sugar again, and hence the chocolate, candy and waht not cravings.

The trick is to be sensible about sugar intake and use sugars (and carbohydrates) with a low glychemic value. They release slowly into the bloodstream, thus an even mellow kind of curve forms that will not cause the mad need for sugar. Make sense?

So today I bought Agave Syrup, has 1.3 times the sweeting value of white refined sugar, but a low glycemic value. I used it in my curd, and I must say, it worked. So tomorrow instead of the sweetner I usually use, I will use the syrup and see if it makes a difference. I will let you all know!

Breakfast
7,5 points
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5,0 - 7 tbs Willow's home made morning muesli
2,5 - 250 ml skimmed milk

Lunch
7,0 points
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5,0 - 500 ml skimmed curd (organic - fantastic stuff)
0,0 - fruit
2,0 - 2 tbs agave syrup

Diner
8,0 points
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5,0 - 3 sausages
2,0 - 1 slice of bread
1,0 - 2 cs Mayo

Various
7,0 points
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7,0 - 4 chocolate bars (WW)