Progress me a mek!!

I is a very happy likkle gurl

Because why?

Well I have shifted a couple more pounds since my last blog. I am slowly but surely reaching my goals and running away from that hefty BMI of almost 30. So I am please to say that I am now 13st 5lbs...ok it still heavy, however it aint 14st so of course God haffi get bless for di progress yes!!

Nawh f'real!! I am very happy because I feel smaller, people are saying I'm looking smaller, I am starting to see it too and you know my clothes are normally quick to tell me I put on weight but this time my jeans testify to the weight loss.

My lying pair of jeans (thus called because the label say size 12 and I kno it definitely aint no 12) went up without their usual fight...you know what I'm talking about ladies... 

And when I zipped it up the button wasn't begging for mercy saying 'please release me'. Instead it closed with ease AND the waist band had space...it wasn't tight forming those infamous muffin tops

The Jeans fit me good :)

Yes I n I is very happy about the results but I must not stop there. Instead seeing that it is possible for me to lose weight I must continue to reach that goal of that body that is fitter healthier gawjusser and that will make my future hubby eye pop out him head on our wedding night ;)

Yes! Tis my aim in Jesus name!!

I'm bringing sexy back..

GREAT NEWS!!!

Ok as y'all know I was on holiday and well my whole routine that I managed to stick to for like the weeks before I went was sort of put on hold, this morning I gave myself 'THE TALK'. I stood in the mirror stripped down to me undies and said right Nai look at yourself! Normally I try to be like well I dont look too bad or I realise I'm holding my stomach in slightly so today I was brutally honest and let it all hang out and you know what I saw?

Naw not really more like:

Ok I exaggerate but basically I saw enough to say that I want to get back on my routine. After my talk I've set a 5 month goal to get fitter and healthier so that by Christmas I'll be a lot closer to my wifey body. Truth is, when my booboo get's to see me in on my glory on our wedding night I want him to have an MI - well a small one ('heart attack' for the non medical minded lol). That of course is not the only reason. My body is on loan from God, I have to look after it. Thou shall not kill includes thyself slowly through bad lifestyle choices e.g bad eating habits and inactivity. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs as the Word speaks against such things but I can still be going against what is required of me by eating foolyness and being a lazy bum...so these are the reasons change is gonna come....I digress lol

The good news...errm....yeh...

Oh that's it...! I know what I need to do to help me meet this goal and I feel like my eating is becoming more under control. I'm getting use to not eating between meals and drinking to close too meals and not snacking and also not eating chocolate amongst other blatantly not good for me things....dont get me wrong the cravings for chocolate are still there but nothing a little prayer cant cure. anywhoo...I have my exercise routine planned too...double Zumba plus walking home from work (weather permitting) but I realise my problem area is around my middle.
I never really had a tummy problem. Normally my thighs are my OMS (Oh my Systems!!!) shock horror type flex but recently I duno maybe as I edge closer to middle age lol my middle has well become a dumping ground for all that I shouldnt eat.


Now dont get me wrong...I am fortunate to have as my mum would say a 'boom figure' but all that goes very quickly when your lugging spares. I tend to go from this

to this

when I put on weight so to my exercise routine I've added some abdominal exercises (crunches and reverse crunches) twice a day I'll start with 60 in the morning and 60 in the evening and see how we go from there. Might throw a few squats in there too making sure my derrière nuh get long down! lol so that is all to kick off from tomorrow....

And yet I still nuh mention what I'm suppose to mention lol

Ok continuing....I bought a scale. As you know my BMI was sadly OBESE...I was 14st of OBESENESS I dun know I dont look it but hey ya cyant fool di numbers....HOWEVER....finally the good news bit

I have moved from OBESE to OVERWEIGHT....yay wooooo boooyaahhh!!! LOLZ

New BMI :)

Yes my scale has told me I am now 13st 7lbs...so me lass 7lbs :) ok granted it wernt the same scale that I found out my weight on at the clinic nor was I wearing the same amount of clothes BUT what it does show me is that whatever I am trying is actually working.....

Now....I didnt just buy any old scale...no I went fancy and got a body analyser (was not intentional but you get what you pay for lol) so I can now keep an eye on my body fat and body water measurements...and according to this ting I am only 7% over normal body fat....now considering I was OBESE you woulda thought my body fat would be much more...so I will therefore stick to what I have always been saying....I am heavy not necessary because of fat cos in all honesty I know I do not look nearly 200lbs so nerr :p

Well that is it! That is my good news!! I am happy! I am motivated! and now all I can say is 'let's does this ting!!' :)

And of course this can be achieved with the Lord's help so I'll consider it DID AREADY!!!

'...With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.'  (Mat 19:26)

Guess who's back...fat again...

Well I'm back!

Back from a much needed break from dreary old England....Spain was good and much needed break but I'll talk about that in my holiday blog but this time I want to talk about food...

Yes food and the difficulties of trying to eat in Spain...
Mama said to me dont eat like a rabbit while you're there jus make sure when you come back you eat properly and get back on the exercise tip...truth is I had no choice but to follow what mum said cos eating out there was HARD.

So just a recap

Before I left I was obese


 While I was there I was obese but well on the beach

and now I'm back I'm well you guessed it...still obese just obese with a slight tan but obese nevertheless according to my BMI which Im still like:

Did that woman really just call me obese? Oh hell no...hold me back ...hold me back

I was hoping to lose a bit of weight while I was there...fat chance (pun intended lol) and the reason for this was lack of good food.

Oh my systems!!! it was so difficult to eat out there when trying to eat healthy and trying to not eat anything unclean (Leviticus 11) meaning no pork and seafood amongst other things and you know what? its like we entered into the land of the unclean! everything was pork shrimp squid muscles crab etc etc... so i tell you now...I've never eaten so much white bread products in my life...so that you have an idea of what I ate I'll give you a run down

Breakfast they had croissants, doughnuts, pastries, bread rolls, bread slices, beans, and a variety of pork products (bacon, chops, sausages), cereals, some fruit and some interesting looking dessert things that I didnt dare touch lol

So what did I eat loads of bread products, I did eventually touch the cereal but nothing like good ol' brit cereals so by the end of breakfast I felt like

 but less cute.... :(

Now I guess this sort of put us off cos our first meal at the hotel was dinner cos thats the time we arrived so we got our plates to see what we could eat and well not much...i went straight for the salads and olives trying  be healthy and ended up eating something i thought was cheese which now im convinced was probably squid cos cheese aint fishy tasting...shock horror....

There was pasta so didnt starve and there was chips but really go all the way to Spain to eat chips...anyway we asked the cook what the meats was and was told what we could eat (only option chicken)

HOWEVER....I tell you that was not chicken....we did not finish it cos one it looked like a leg piece or thigh piece but the bone was removed but as you got to the middle the texture changed from looking like chicken to looking like something else...so I swear down that could of been some either badly cooked chicken or some chicken wrapped reconstituted pork meat lol....yeh we didnt eat much that evening...lol

For the rest of the holiday we had breakfast at the hotel and found places to eat out whilst doing the whole tourist thing. And one thing I rate the spanish for is their portions...they clearly dont want you left hungry. Whatever we had for lunch we didnt have to eat again and the food was good tasting and reasonably priced.

mammoth pizza that was so big it hung over the plate

Awesome chicken lunch...buff plate of food

So all in all we survived but I got some undoing to do now I'm back...did a lot of walking but I'm sure by next week I'll be feeling my carb over load all over my obese figure lol

Oh well next goal is to be slim for Christmas lol