Sorryyyyy been sooo long!!

Hey....

So sorry for the long gap between posts, I have been working crazzyyyy shifts and have had little time for anything over than sleeping. Did fit in a few days at my Nana and Grandad's as it was my Grandad's birthday and spent the day with him.

I haven't got any weigh in information for you yet, as my weigh in is tomorrow. But I have a horrible feeling I may have not lost anything as I have been a little naughty! Going to have a massive cardio work out tomorrow and really crack down on the calories and hopefully reach the 'I've lost a stone mark' by the end of this week, if not definitely have to hit it next week!

I will come back on tomorrow with either good or bad news lol.

Been feeling a little annoyed this week to say the least and have had a few rants on Facebook/Twitter which was probably a little immature of me but, hey, I lost my rag!

Nothing upsets me more than working extra hard all month, 50 hours a week and then having a month where you can't afford to buy a pair of socks let alone go out and get wrecked 3 times a week. I may have put on a status in regards to this lol. Sorry if anyone was offended (but as stated in my second status, you need to take a look at yourself if you think its aimed at you) but I feel really strongly about this. I'm paying my taxes and going to work rain or shine, sick or sicker. And all the while there are some buggers out there that sit around doing nothing all day other than moaning about there various illnesses and lack of money, only to follow up these statuses with one telling the world that they are 'off out tonight'. Its really frustrating to me and I know it is to other's, so while I am sorry if I upset or offended anyone, doesn't change my feelings on the subject by any stretch of the imagination!

Something else has annoyed me this week! (Nevvverrrr....) I'm not one to normally comment on or 'tweet'celebs, but the current attack on Lucy Meck from so called human beings this week left me feeling angry and hurt for her. So what if she previously made a mistake. That doesn't make it ok for Mario Falcone to be emailing/texting numerous amounts of other girls. That's just wrong! All these people tweeting Lucy horrible messages telling her she deserves it have got a really strange understanding of ethics! If Mario thinks it is ok to behave like that, he shouldn't have ever reprimanded Lucy in the first place. And if he wasn't willing to forget, he shouldn't of taken her back. So Lucy Meck, I'm all for you on that one kid, as quite frankly, hes a bit of a scumbag and you can quite clearly do better love.

Ok so I shall stop having a grumpy moment for now (oh just one more thing, what a stupid thing Arg said about Lydia the other night, proper love him, but really how thick can you get!!). Going to be working really hard again this week (well 8 days....) so I will try to catch up as much as I can on here, but hopefully will be dedicating most of my time to exercise.

Not long now until I go off to Glasgow/Edinburgh for a week and I am really looking forward to it. I've shortlisted around 15 flats to look at right in the city centre of Glasgow, obviously some may have gone by then but I'm sure there will be new ones. I'll keep you updated on my move!

Anyway guys, I'm going to be on here updating all things Hattie in full tomorrow, so I'm not going to waffle on any further with my rants about TOWIE, etc, lol!

Catch you tomorrow, thanks loveables! xx

Day 16... Oh and I'm Moving To Scotland!!!

Hi All,

Glasgow

So big news today is that I am officially moving to Glasgow, Scotland. I literally cannot wait!!


I have secured a transfer to Glasgow with my company, Nandos, and I am going up on the 26th February for 8 days, to find and put down the deposit on a flat! Approx a month after that, we'll be moving all of our stuff up there and I can start in  my new job. We are moving to Glasgow as Brett's job is going to be there. I was a little disappointed as Edinburgh is by far my favourite place in Scotland (so far) but you can get the train from Glasgow to there in 40 minutes and its only £8.00. So I reckon I will be visiting over there a lot :)


We have already been speaking to Estate Agents and looking at places online 

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-32751022.html

Edinburgh

We are looking for a really spacious big flat fully furnished so its quite hard to find places to look at. I get to spend another week in Edinburgh when I go up though as I am going to stay in Brett's new flat and get the train over to Glasgow in the day to save paying out for a hotel. Which is great as it means I can look at more of Edinburgh and do some more shopping there :) 








Anyway back on to my weight challenge... I have now lost a total of 8 pounds and I am hoping to lose another 4 this week. I am on alot of late shifts which means more time to do exercising. I spent ages on Just Dance this morning and the Wii Fit and burned off around 400 calories and it didn't even feel like working out as its great fun Might have another blast later on!


I can see the difference in me as well already, my face looks slimmers and I am starting to look a little slimmer which is great! I'm starting to put some penny's to one side so that when I get down to my ideal weight I can go on a little shopping spree! Or a big one ha ha!


I've looked into a few things I can do when I move to Glasgow to help make new friends and stuff and I'm hopefully going to do a one-night a week course at the college. It a make-up course so that's something that really interests me and hopefully there will be like minded people there as well. I am also looking for a new gym, beauty salon and hairdressers... I guess I should start looking for a Doctors and a Dentists as well lol.

Meal Planner This Week

Next weeks meal planner

I actually am counting down the days to my 'Naughty Day'. Gonna be one hell of a take away ha ha!


Well I'll keep you updated as I have been on my progress etc....

If you get time take a look at this blog... its the photographer who did our wedding and there are some gorgeous pics on there. http://funurgle.blogspot.com/2011/08/meredith-cleary-wedding-20th-august.html

Anyway speak soon.... Thanks Loveables x

Day 5

So far so good.... Stuck to my meal plan all week. Being a little naughty at the moment as I'm currently on the train to Edinburgh. Lost about 3 pounds already and can already start to see the difference. One of my regular customers who I haven't seen for a few weeks told me I have lost weight so that's good news! :) Think this weekend will be challenging as we are staying in a hotel and will be eating out for every meal so my little meal planner has gone a bit scew whiff... Going to be really careful though and stick to my allowance. However in my extremely heavy well over-packed-for-a-weekend suitcase I have packed some weight watchers cookies in amongst the mass of pot noodles I got 'on offer' for Brett to have in his lunches (keeping up with the wifely duties!) so I've no excuse to snack on chocolate bars ha ha. Managed to fit in some exercise today with my eventful trip to the train station. I managed to get off work a little early, spotted a train in 25 minutes. I quickly changed and ran to the station with my suitcase and rucksack (which was heavy enough to take to war for some reason). I arrived there to discover the train was cancelled! How annoyingggg! More annoying during my run to the station I realised I had forgotten my bloody headphones. With another train due in 25 minutes I decided to run all the way back to town, purchase new headphones. Did this in great time, except I then limped back to the station as my knee is throbbing again. Fail!!!! So now sitting on train dosed up in co-codamal. Hoping it will knock the pain out of my shoulder too! Anyway moving on.... Going to do some shopping this weekend. Excited about that as Edinburgh shops are a little better than peterborough's lol. Going to be grabbing some make-up (shocker) from the counters that they don't have anywhere near me at home, as I find picking colours online and getting them right a real chore. Brett is also going to take me to see some of the sights in Edinburgh which I am looking forward to. On Monday I'm travelling over to Glasgow for a meeting (gossip on that one coming soon). If I have time I'll take a small (or wee as the Scottish would say) wander around and see a bit of the place. Bretts job is moving back to Glasgow soon so sure I'll be spending a little time there! Back down to earth on Monday evening as heading back to Peterborough. Interesting week planned though. Tuesday will be doing plenty of fitness while waiting in for Mum's new phone (not so interesting), back to work on Wednesday and hopefully a catch up with my beautiful friend Lau Lau, work on thurs followed by another evening out with a friend and collegue from Notts! Chilling on Friday for a 7am start on Saturday which does however leave saturday night free.... So looking like a good week, but going to have plan in my calories carefully and make sure I fit in some exercise. Weigh in on Tuesday (maybe Monday night if I can be bothered, doubt it)! Keeping fingers crossed for minimum 3 pound loss! Catch you soon.... Thanks lovelies xx

Day 1

Well Day One went well :)


Stuck to my meal plan. Did as much exercise as possible but my knee is still really painful :( so going to have to be careful with that.


Found it more difficult in the evening than I did in the day as evening is usually when I snack. But other then that it was fine.


Have had a slip up this morning (Day 2) in that I woke up too late to fit in to my schedule lol! (Well I was working till 1.30am) so I have had to adjust it a little but I think it will be ok.


Also my plans for the weekend have suddenly changed as I'm going to Edinburgh to see my hubby (Yay cannay wait :)!!) so I'm going to have to make some adjustments to my meal plan. Not sure how its going to work as we will be eating out alot... but I'm just going to have to go for good meals not the naughty calorific ones.

Actually really looking forward to going away this weekend and seeing some more of Scotland. Me and Brett got engaged in Aberdeen when I went to see him for my birthday. I loved Aberdeen it was beautiful and the shopping was amazing. Its strange being on the coast, but its quite cold.  But the views are gorgeous. 


(Pics of me and Brett in Aberdeen. The beach is massive! Beautiful but freezing!)


I'm going after work on Friday (urggghh drag night time train journey... not so fun) and staying until Monday. On Monday I'm heading over to Glasgow for the day before returning to Edinburgh to get the train home (works out cheaper that way!). I'll post pics of my trip on my return!


Catch up with you again soon.... Thanks Lovelies xx

Week One!

The shopping has been done, the various wii fitness games have been purchased and set up, meals are planned for the week and I'm ready to ditch the extra weight. Little worried that my dodgy knee is still playing up but hopefully it will be well enough to work out on.


Have hidden all the naughty foods from sight and made sure that there are plenty of healthy low calorie snack foods around!


I'm actually quite looking forward to it.


Some people may find it silly to be making such a big deal out of a diet, but I am determined this is going to work! 

My meal planner seems pretty over the top, but I need to know what I'm doing lol!

I've fitted all my meals into my days so that I'm eating the right thing at the right time!

My hubby and family are being really supportive and encouraging which is great as they are going to have to put up with my whinging, whining and moaning about wanting chocolate and kfc lol. 


Hoping to lose at least 3 pounds this week! 


Wish me luck... thanks loveables :) x

The last supper!!

My last disgustingly huge takeaway before diet starts! Love love LOVE KFC.

Ready for Monday!

So me and my mum are getting all prepared for Monday.
The wii fit has been set up and has told us how fat we are (too fat) lol.


We have stocked up on healthy foods and healthy convenience foods like fruit and low fat yogurts so we dont binge on snacks! Everything is set for monday! Apart from we need to eat all the crap that is left in the house from christmas and what we dont eat chuck out lol.


Thought I would amuse you all with some pretty awful 'before' pictures of myself!

Pigging out on christmas day.... 

On honeymoon.....

Trying on my wedding dress...

Hopefully next time I'm posting pics I'll be looking a little bit slimmer :)

Its time to start.... My Journey :)

Thanks Lovelies xx

Having a Treat won't necessarily kill your Calorie Allowance....

The opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the companies stated below. I am not a health professional merely an experimental blogger.


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I have made a list of some tasty treats from my favourite takeaways and there  calorie content!
My theory is if I know there is something I can eat I will stick to that less calorific item rather than splurging my whole daily allowance in a couple of mouthfuls....


Let me know what you think...  

Nandos

450 or Less

1/4 Chicken Breast with Corn and Peas = 392

Mixed Leaf salad with Chicken = 317

3 Wings and 2 Corn = 317

3 Wings with Spicy Rice = 378

1/4 Chicken Breast with Spicy Rice = 324

1/4 Chicken Breast with Spicy Rice and Corn = 423

500 or Less

1/4 Chicken Breast with Spicy Rice and Peas = 482

Chicken Pitta and Corn = 485

Vegi Pitta and Corn = 483

Beanie Pitta (on its own!) = 476

1/4 Chicken Breast with Coleslaw and Corn = 499

3 Wings with Mash 461

Small Treats

Nata = 210

Mango Sorbet =186

Yogurt = Approx 100 per 100ml

Chilly Billy Lolly = 49.5

McDonalds

Cheeseburger, Sml Fries and Diet Coke = 529

4 Chicken Nuggets, Sml Fries and Diet Coke = 404

6 Chicken Nuggets, Sml Fries and Diet Coke = 484

Bagel with Philadelphia, Orange Juice = 383

Fish Fingers, Sml Fries and Diet Coke = 429

Greggs

Bacon & Cheese wrap = 410

Sausage Roll = 360

Cheese & Tomato Pizza = 290

Yum Yum = 340

Bacon Roll = 380

Golden Syrup Oats = 260

Chicken & Sweetcorn Sandwich on Oat = 310

Tuna & Sweetcorn Sandwich on Oat = 310

KFC

2 Hot Wings and Corn = 315

4 Hot Wings and Corn = 480

1 Piece and Corn = 394

1 Piece and Chips = 491

2 Hot Wings, Chips and Corn = 562

Cheese BBQ Roller and Corn = 390

The places above are the ones that I find it hardest to stay away from. I work at Nandos and eat there everyday which is why that particular 'menu' is a little more structured. I walk past Greggs everyday on my way to work and often find myself nipping in there on a morning to grab some brekkie. McD's is just convenience, often Brett and I will nip through the drivethru on a busy day, I thought that by just having a double cheeseburger I wasn't having that much.... how wrong could I be! And KFC is just my favourite takeaway ever lol.

I found all this information on the company websites. I've printed it off and stuck it in the back of my food diary so that its to hand all the time. I find it really useful. Its a bit time consuming to put together but worth it if stops you splurging all your calories away in one sitting.

Let me know what you think... thanks lovelies xx

The opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the companies stated above. I am not a health professional merely an experimental blogger.

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