Review: Week 1

So I figured after I post my results, I'd share with you how my week went. The ups, the downs and all the wobbly bits in between.

It's been a bit of a tough week for me, not because I started finally doing something about my weight but because I was on day shifts Saturday-Tuesday and my OH was really ill with the flu.

Now what's the big deal with a day shift I hear you ask. Well mine are from 0645-1630hrs. I leave home at around 0610hrs and get home 1700hrs. It's a frickin long day made worse by the fact I AM NOT a morning person and struggle to go to sleep early enough, so end up going to work on 3 or 4hrs sleep. I then fall asleep when I get home - vicious circle yadda-yadda.

So if I'm lucky enough not to be unconscious in the evening, OH will do dinner as I am simply too exhausted. I say that like it's a good thing. His skills are limited to beans on toast, pasta (depends what with) and oven food (like chips, some version of Birdseye chicken and peas - always peas). But this week he's had flu, or as we call it Mafflu (my nickname for him is Maffew). So he's been a useless whiny child led up in bed. 

I admit that I have had pizza one night, a chicken sandwich with salad (from mummy), a roast (from mummy) tomato soup with tiger bread (*drool*) and some other miscellaneous non-fantastic stuff some other night.

The Monday Mong was because I had spent all evening finishing OH's application form for a job as he was too ill then going round mummy's to print it. Great way to have food made for you though ;)

That's the downers of this week. Along with the odd biscuit at work (Ssh).

Upsides this week:

I have prepared my work food the night before. So simple right? But I used to just chuck random stuff in a bag at 6am and head out the door ill-prepared, then find myself buying crisps during the day or going to Morrisons as I was actual hungry. I need both breakfast, lunch and something to fill the 5hrs inbetween.

Guess what I did? (so proud!) I took 5-a-day!! That's right!! I took a selection of fruit (apple, kiwi, plums, clementines) and a veg (either pepper or carrot). One day I even had baked beans which count toward 1 5-a-day. There was also a yogurt (low fat) thrown in for good measure after breakfast.

I have also made a concerted effort to drink more. It was not unusual for me to only have one glass of Diet Pepsi in a whole day. Seriously. I am not a massive fan of water and cannot sit there just drinking gulp after gulp of it. So I got some low-calorie orange squash to pop in it. Don't really like squash either but it's better than water. That's going well. I can tell because I pee more. Ick. Hate using public toilets.

Although I lost weight this week, I know that I did not make enough effort. There is more that I can do so make a bigger impact on myself and my habits.

As I'm on night shifts this weekend, I shall be in the gym on my break at 4am. This is my favourite time to go. Why? No one else is in there so I can make all the silly straining faces I need to get me to maintain 140 steps/revs a minute on the cross-trainer! I also use the weight machines as I need to strengthen my shoulder muscles. All good stuff. And although just before going it feels like the dumbest idea in the world, nothing beats that feeling of achievement when you're done.

Anywho, that is all from me on Week 1. How did you fair this week? What were your ups and downs? Or were you lucky enough not to have any...