Big Momma Challenge - Disaster Week

It wouldn’t have been a bad week. I don’t know whether I’ve lost any weight or not as my new scales are still lost in some Amazon depot, but last Sunday my favourite black trousers felt quite confi and my stomach was peaceful. A great achievement so far. But then my friend made a delicious jam roly poly just for us on Sunday night, Monday evening was home-made curry night – how can you resist prawns and veg pasanda?

Yesterday it was Bolognese pasta bake and today my neighbour came back from holiday with these fantastic macaroons …

Disaster! Maybe it's just sheer luck that the scales are still AWOL. I’ll do better next week, I promise!

The Big Momma Challenge week 4 or 2?

Gosh, late again. It seems that my life is running late all the time. Dreadful feeling. Always running after the time. But this is another story.

This is supposed to be week 4 of my Big Momma Challenge, but it’s actually only my second “serious” week. And not a very good week, actually. I slipped here and there especially at the beginning due to my weekly curry (but home cooked so healthier anyway!), although I have managed to stay away from biscuits and cakes, from cappuccino and caffelatte and that’s why I feel a bit better in the evenings. Not too bloated anymore. I think that keeping away from the "deadly" milk has been very helpful.

I don’t know about weight though. When I tried to check it I realized that my scales are not working properly as every time I stepped on them they showed different numbers. I’m not good with lbs anyway, so I have to purchase a new set of scales, possibly with kgs. As my mentor, notSupermum, informs us, this is Farmhouse Breakfast Week in which we are encouraged to have a healthy breakfast and not skip it, not even if we are in a hurry. This morning I had brown toast with banana and honey and a cup of earl grey tea with lemon. It was delicious and strangely filling....Maybe I'm on the right track....

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The Big Momma Challenge Week 1+2+3

I’m sitting here writing this nonsense and munching at my “delicious” lunch of basmati rice with just a drop of olive oil and a sprinkle of Parmesan ....trying to imagine a nice curry dish to eat along this rather fade lunch of mine....It's all my fault. Although I took on the challenge of notSupermum: The Big Momma Challenge 2011 : week 3 to help myself to lose a few extra pounds I put on in the last six months, especially over Christmas, already 3 weeks ago, it's only now that I’ve started taking it seriously. Now that's the challenge is something more than shifting a bit of weight but becoming a healthy eater and help myself to get over my digestion problems. In the last couple of weeks I tried to start eating better, avoiding my tea&biscuits – tea&cakes weakness, but I failed miserably mainly due to the fact that January seems to be the month of birthdays among my friends and family. I know it is not a good excuse, but how can you really refuse a lovely meal with friends, an afternoon tea to celebrate an anniversary or a glass of champagne offered by a colleague for her promotion? I didn’t manage that, not until yesterday, but now I have to, for the sake of my IBS and my physical health. So I thank notSupermum for the opportunity of joining a little group of ladies (men welcome too, I suppose!) who are trying to defeat their bad eating habits and get better....Update next week…Fingers crossed….

(No, this isn't a healthy diet plan...I fear...)