A Gazillion ProPoints but Loads of Fun!

On Saturday, I went to my final festival of the summer - The Big Feastival. It was a food and music festival in the Cotswolds, set up by Alex James and Jamie Oliver. It had loads of amazing food outlets with a myriad of goodies to sample, local crafts and great music. The highlight, apart from the free Green and Blacks chocolate, was Fat Boy Slim, who did an incredible 90 minute set. I danced my way to all his greats, mixed up with classic hits and new, bass heavy tracks.

I knew this one would be difficult, diet-wise. I had a choice to make. Put off starting Weight Watchers until after or accept that I may gain weight this week. I went for the second option! It's very hard to work out exactly how many points I went through but I've had a good guess:

B: fruit and low fat yog (1)

L: paella (18)

D: Higgety Chicken Pie (20!) cheesy mash (8) churros (18)

Drinks: (6)

Freebies: (15)

Total: 86 points!! 

Luckily, I had saved my weekly 49 points, plus the 38 I had for the day, so:

(49+38) - 86 = +1

It looks like I might be off the hook! 

That's not including the exercise points earned from walking and dancing. 

In other news, I'm back to work tomorrow (boo!) but it does make planning, eating and exercising a lot easier. 

Festival Madness

This weekend I went to a music festival with a group of friends. It was amazing! Great music, great location and great times with people I enjoy spending time with. I knew it would be tough keeping to my diet over the two days but I've tracked everything this weekend and I don't think I've done too bad. Actually, I'm quite proud of myself! 

The food choices there were not healthy but I think I chose well, considering. I avoided too much bread and only had one pint of lager on Saturday. On Sunday, I bought some cooked chicken and wholemeal pittas with me and took them in so didn't have to buy food from the stalls. I didn't drink alcohol at all on Sunday either and drank lots of diet coke and water. I also did more exercise in those two days than I have done in the last 2 months! Saturday, I walked (slowly) the 40 min journey there and back after it finished and Sunday I walked back. I walked (again, slowly) all day, especially Saturday and even danced! 

My ankles and knees are killing me today, but that's not surprising considering they've been holding up 17stone for the last two days! I need to be very good all week as have another festival on Saturday and this one has a food focus! I'll be driving to this one and back so will have to dance, lots! 

Tricky Times

Wednesday saw the start of a tricky couple of weeks for me. I had Ma to stay, have two weekend festivals to go to and I have to go back to work. The last couple of days have been filled with delicious food but I've tracked it all as best I can. I lost 2.5lbs when I weighed in on Weds which means a total of 7lbs. Am really pleased! Just got to get through the next week and a half without blowing it.

I'm really enjoying eating fresh, 'clean' food again and making new recipes which fit the plan. I'm especially enjoying all the fesh fruit and vegetables, in particular local raspberries and strawberries.

I've also made a Thai prawn curry using my original Thai curry paste recipe and Chinese pork balls. Not sure what I'll eat at the first festival this weekend. I will probably try and avoid bread to help and I won't be drinking. Just got to make sure I dance lots to earn some activity points!