MY WI result (22nd Feb 2007)

This week I was working so hard to lose 3lbs to take me over 5 stone and I DID IT!!!

I lost 4.5lbs this week so I have now lost 71.5lbs in total. How great is that? 6lbs to go to get out of the 20s, which is my Easter aim.

I'm off to work now but I have loads to talk about so I'll email again over the weekend.

Take care

Vicky xxx

MY WI Result (15th Feb 2007)

Another 2lbs gone forever and I have now lost a total of 67lbs on my weightloss journey. I am very happy with that as I struggled a bit last weekend but managed to draw a line under it and move on, something I have struggled to do in the past.

Well my goals for this week are to not pick today (I always pick on a Friday) and to work very hard to try and lose 3lbs this week. It may seem a lot but I really want to get my 5 stone so that I can work on getting out of the 20 stone (I'm currently 20st10lbs) before Easter. It would be a big breakthrough to get out of that as I haven't managed to do so since 1998.

Anyway, I have loads to tell you but I have to go to work. I'll post again over the weekend.

Enjoy your weekend and the picture (took it when I saw him in September at Hampden Park).

New hair, new me!!

Good evening and welcome to the weekend.

Here is the picture I promised of my new hairstyle. The picture does not do it justice really as you cannot see the layers down the side but WHOA!!! I just noticed how much weight I have lost. I just showed mum a before picture and she was like "WOW!!!" So, I've included another before picture taken on my 30th birthday in 2006 (June) so you can the difference. The person with me in the picture is Gary, a work colleague. I really look massive in it and it saddens me to think I once looked like that. Please don't ever let me look like that again.

Anyway, already I feel so much more confident in myself and I really feel that this is the year for sorting my life out. I've giving up smoking, I've carried on losing weight, I started exercising and I'm also making an effort to be nice to people as I know I don't have an awful lot of patience at time and that is something I am going to continue working on. There are also other aspects of my life that I don't particularly like but I am dealing with them and no doubt I'll share them with you one day.

My WI result for 8th February 2007

Another successful week and another 3lbs lost which is so good in so many ways. I have now lost a total of 65lbs and am into the final stone in my quest to get out of the 20's. It also means I am within 5lbs of reaching my 70lb mark (5 stone), something which I was aiming to achieve for Easter and it also means I am just a few pounds off being the lowest I have been since 1998.

Right, I'm going to take a big breath and go for it. I'm going to set a new mini goal by Easter and get out of the 20's. Only 12.5lbs to go!!!

As for my hair, I LOVE IT. I'll get a picture taken at the weekend and post it on her for you all to see. I love the layers in the front and I love having a fringe again and I feel confident about wearing it up again now so all is going so well.

I hope you all have a good weekend.

Vicky xx

Vicky xx

Aqua Aerobics and new hair style

Hi everyone,

On Monday evening a friend and I went to aqua aerobics. It was great fun and I really enjoyed it. I expected to find it harder than it was to be honest but it was not to bad and a good workout. We have booked to go again next week and to be honest, I'll try and go most weeks now as I slowly want to build the exercise up this year and improve my fitness. When I've lost some more weight I would like to join a gym, something I never thought I would ever do.

Tonight I'm having my roots done and a new style. I'm having a fringe cut in and some layers. My hair is the longest it has been since I was a child so I'm not having the length cut. However, it is too thick to just hang straight down. I'm nervous but if I don't like it, I can always grow it again so wish me luck. I'll post a picture up of it when I can.

Anyway, enjoy the snow if you get any. We are supposed to even be getting some down here but whether we do or not is a different matter.

Vicky xx

Entry to the Easter Challenge is now closed.

Please note that entry to the Easter Challenge is now closed. There has been a brilliant response to this challenge and it certainly will be a good one. Goodluck to everyone taking part. For those of you that were unlucky to not get accepted, please keep checking the website for future challenges.

Vicky xxx

MY WI result 1st Feb 2007 and yet another new leader!!!

This week I set myself a target of 1.5lbs as that would mean I had lost 60lbs in total. It was a difficult task, especially when "TOTM" rudely arrived a wee bit early. However, I stayed focused and drank water , lots of it and it worked because I am proud to announce I have lost 3.5lbs!!!

To say I was a bit shocked by that is an understatement but I will very happy take it. Since I joined Weight watchers lost October I have now lost 62lbs and have never been so motivated ever to lose weight.

My mini goal for this week is to lose 1.5lbs again as this will take me into the next stone and also mean I have completed my very own Valentines challenge of losing 14lbs between New Year and Valentines day, a target which I admit to feeling was a bit tough a few weeks ago.

Our new permanent leader started this evening, Marie. She seems very nice and very motivated and hopefully we'll now get some stability in our class again.

I have tagged a very very horrible picture today. It was taken at my grandfathers 90th Birthday meal in May 2005 and to be honest, I'd forgotten it even existed. I really hate it and never want to see it again but I've added it to my horrible picture gallery to remind me of what I never want to and never will look like again.

Vicky xx