I am trying to stick to my points, although I have had a few slips ups.
I woke up this morning with a, 'JUST DO THIS!!' Frame of mind and a renewed determination, It's been a long time since I felt this strong.

Last night I washed a load of spinach, asparagus, raspberries and strawberries and put them into green bags, so I am now more prepared.

I forgot to take my breakfast photo's but I had an actimel, 30g cereal and a muller light yogurt totalling 7pp
I am thinking of maybe having a chicken wrap for lunch and maybe chicken again for my evening meal, not sure.

The sun is out today; it has been sunny for days infact.

Not much to report today. I should get back with photo's later.

BrEaKiNg GlAsS!.....We have been asking the kids in our avenue to STOP playing with footballs outside our house for the last 10-ish years!! But NOPE they just carried on and now the glass has been smashed out in our front door. We are UTTERLY FED UP with this carry on now!! We have lived in this house coming up to 30 years now and over the last 10 years it has gradually got worse!
We have just called the police and are just waiting for them, but for something like this we could be waiting for ages.
The police have now been and are going to the boys house while we have just finished cleaning all the glass up. Oh my! When is this all going to stop!? We would move house but because we have been victims of fraud it isn't possible at the moment as getting another mortgage will be difficult to get until WE have cleared our name for something someone else has done.

On a happier note. Me and my hubby popped out to Asda this morning because when I done my big grocery shop I forgot to get dish washing tablets, eggs, natural yogurts and oranges. I noticed that Asda was selling a 12 box of coconut water for £3, original price £6..WOW! I have been paying around £13 in Costco for the same box of coconut water, of course I bought a box from Asda...what a bargain! I also found pickelets which work out a 1pp each which is good for basically a thin crumpet, much better than the 3pp for an average crumpet. I bought 3 packs so I can put some in the freezer.

I decided to have a look in the clothing section in Asda and I found a few tops that I liked which I bought. They weren't pricey because with trying to lose weight I hopefully wont be in them long.
On the way home from Asda we had a look in Aldi. I just bought some cereals.

Well no menu pics today.

That is me for today, I am off to help clean the mess up from the door as hubby is putting a replacement and unfortunately a different pattern of glass in the door until we get to the glaziers tomorrow.

I was so busy yesterday doing my big grocery shop, which I love to do! I love knowing that I have lots of healthy food choices in my house, but I didn't make the best food choices yesterday because of being out and about, although I did start off well and ate a banana for breakfast, but as the day went on I allowed myself to get hungry and I started grazing on the wrong type of snacky foods.

My first port of call was Asda where I bought lots of healthy foods and a salad for my lunch.

I usually buy the chicken, pasta and bacon salad but I opted for this which is a much better and healthier, low point choice.

I also found the new 'Hula Hoops Puft' snacks and they work out at 2 point per bag.

When I got back from Asda I put all my foods etc away and then went straight out to Costco. I was starting to feel hungry and then realised that I hadn't had my salad before going to Costco.

At Costco I stocked up with chicken breasts, veg, fruit, Broccoli salads, kale salads, tork rolls for cleaning, tea, coffee and a few treats for the freezer. One of the treats I found were these: Tropical Snack Nuggets. They come in a box of 48 (photo of the box is later in this blog post) and they work out at only 2 points per packet. They are small packets but they are packed and take a while to finish the packet.

On the way back from Costco I popped into Tesco where I bought sweet onions and salad dressings. I got home and put all that lot away.
The final grocery trip of the day was to Aldi. I watched a You Tube and someone had bought rice cakes from Aldi and so:

These are huge. These are the yogurt coated rice cakes, I also bought some of the milk chocolate covered rice cakes.

I ordered a, 'Nicer Dicer Plus' yesterday which arrived today. I didn't need this as I have other pieces of machinery that do the same jobs but sometimes we just want to grab a piece of kitchen equipment quickly and so I thought this would be for those times. It was only £8.50 and free delivery from Ebay so I bought it for my much already cupboard filled kitchen...tut tut!

Well that is me for today but I will be back tomorrow with my menus in photos and good tracking.

I started doing my housework at about 8.15am starting with my fridge. I have a big American fridge/freezer. It took me an hour and a half to clean the fridge, inside, around the seals, the shelves etc. I bought some flex tubs a few weeks ago because I wanted some sort of organisation in my fridge, so of course I had to clean those before using them inside the fridge, it does look so much better! Whoa! A lot of fridge going on there :)
After the, fridge :) I then started vacuuming, cleaning and polishing my floors and it has taken me nearly all day. I have been busy with a few other jobs also but most of the day has been floors. My back is now in two..OUCH!

My eating hasn't been the best and I have used 12 of my weekly 49 points totaling 15 of my 49 weeklies. I now have 34 weeklies left.

I am going to be more organised tomorrow with my meals.

Above: I had the chia porridge and a banana for breakfast and then I got stuck into housework.
For lunch, because I was so busy I just grabbed a bacon rasher crisp sandwich, I know, sounds disgusting doesn't it? I actually like them, something from my childhood.
Snacks, well, this is just a portion of the snacks, I just seemed to graze for the rest of the day in between jobs. total spent today: 41 points (29 daily points and 12 weeklies).

Above is a photo of my latest Weight Watchers purchase. These are new. They come in packs of 4 and each pot serves 2.
I will post a pic here when I try them.

Well, that is me for today. I am wacked so an early night.

Heaviest Weight Ever: 15st 5lb
Start weight of Operation 50: 15st 3lb
Weight Lost To Date: 2lb
Total Weight To Lose: 6st 5lb
Total Weight Left To Lose: 6st 2lb

WEEK 1
Now, if the title of today's post isn't a NONE subtle reminder to myself as to why I need to lose weight then I don't what is!  I was thinking of names like: operation fat buster, lard buster, lard a**e, all those things but I reminded myself as to why I want to lose weight even more at this point in my life. I am going through menopause, yes, after a few years of denial I have finally started admitting it to myself once and for all. I am also months, yes months away from being 50 years old, granted it is next year but come on, it is the first week in January and it is no longer a year away.....time to get lard busting! I will also be getting on with exercise.

I have had a 5 point breakfast which was a chia oat porridge that I received in a Degusta box, it was rather nice too! I have another sachet of it which I am going to have tomorrow morning.

Oh! Before I forget, I have photo's

 Above: Butterbuds. I used to buy these years ago but when I was trying to go raw I stopped buying them, but since starting Weight Watchers I remembered about them. These are a sachet of butter granules and are sprinkled over potatoes, veg etc and so yummy! I buy these from Lakeland. They are £4.99 if I remember rightly.

I recently discovered Maybelline brow mascara. I have tried pencils, mascara's, tinting etc to give myself eyebrows but nothing has worked as good as this brow mascara. I'm not sure if it is the product, brush or both, but it is good!
As you can see on the photo above I have done before and after eyebrow photo's using the Maybelline. It takes me half the time to do my eyebrows now. I do have eyebrow hair but it is so faint you can't see them unless I use something on them. I was never blessed with eyebrows.

Here is my recent Weight Watchers haul. I bought the new Filling & Healthy book and the new Chocolate & Hazelnut spread.

I bought a few things from Weight Watchers on Saturday also so I will get a photo of those at some point today. I am also going to post daily photo's of my meals, starting today.

Well, I have housework to do so I must crack on with that.

*UPDATE*

I have been so busy cleaning today. I had to sort out the crockery cupboard because the small plastic stubby thing that the shelf sat on had snapped, so I had to replace it, and before putting everything back in I cleaned the cupboard, which just happened to be on today's cleaning list of jobs anyway. My back is paying the price for sorting that cupboard out...OUCH!

I watched a You Tube recipe last night which looked delicious; Chicken Pie Soup, so I got everything into the small crock pot this morning and it has been cooking all day. The whole crock pot came to 13 points. I have to confess to having the lot because I went back for seconds.
I have spent 32 points today, so that is three points from my weekly allowance of 49.

Today's menu in pictures.

Back tomorrow.

I haven't taken the photo's that I intended to take because I decided to do some baking over these few days.
We had our grandson here on Saturday and of course he wanted to help me do some baking, which he got bored with after a few minutes, he did make himself a scone :)
I made scones, a stromboli recipe that I got from You Tube which are now in the freezer. I also made pizza for the kids evening meal, I have to say they were huge and Michael ate all of his...AMAZING! I made other things but I can't remember now.
Yesterday I made, granola bars, ciabatta, tea cake buns and cupcakes.

Here are photo's of yesterday's shinanigans, as you can see I am no baker.

I am going to get the other photo's done today, for sure!
I will be back with those later today.

Back later.

I seriously did not realise that it has been so long since I last updated....February!...Oh my!

I have been feeling rather up and down with more downs lately, no excuse not to blog as blogging could and would have probably helped me by not allowing myself to dwell so much, but I am here now.

I have been watching quite a few You Tubes lately and I am feeling more and more motivated to become a gym bunny, well, not quite but to become a home gym bunny :) So I have decided that after the Easter I am going to get gyming :) exercising. I am leaving it until after Easter but not because I have tonnes of Easter eggs to scoff.....NOOoo I don't have one single Easter egg to scoff, not even a Cadbury's Creme Egg...boohoo it's a good thing really but it wont make much of a difference because I intend to do some baking over the Easter weekend anyway....for the kids you understand ;) I might have a nibble or two of somethings that I make.

When I was getting breakfast this morning I was going to make Golden Syrup porridge...naughty, but then I remembered that I still had some "30% less fat" granola left from my Degusta box. I picked up the bag of granola.....ummmm not that much left I thought to myself, so I grabbed a bowl and poured the contents of the granola package into it....oh! A tad more than I thought...oh well. I gazed into the bag to see if the bag was empty, just a tiny bit more left in there I might aswell tip it all in, so in it went...a bowl full. I then grabbed a cappuccino yogurt from the fridge and poured that over the granola also....YUM! But I just know I am going to pay the price for eating all the granola later...OOops! Anyway, "30% less fat" or not, it wouldn't have made any difference because of the amount I had :o

As you will have noticed, I haven't been tracking AGAIN! What is new? Yet I just know that when I get my lardy bott into gear then I will lose quickly, I usually do, or rather, I always have done in the past, but having said that, I was younger and NOT going through the menopause...not an excuse here!

Photo's of my Mother's Day gifts

The above are cup cakes...how BEAUTIFUL are these? I shared them with my four grandchildren.

MORE Mother's Day gifts. I LOVE them!

I bought this: Gtech, K9 Air Ram cordless vacuum and it is FAAAANTAAASTIC!
Quite expensive compared to an electric vacuum but just as good!!

I placed an order at Holland & Barrett. I bought more Eat Water Slim Pasta: Penne and Fettuccine, these are the new Slim Pasta shapes. I also bought some Choc Shot, Pop Rice, chocolate covered Lite Rice and yogurt coated pineapple....YUM! 

I have a few more photo's to take which I will get done today and maybe post later today or tomorrow. You will have to come back later if you want to know what they are ;)

Back later or tomorrow :)