Missing - Motivation & Willpower. If found please return ASAP

So it seems my whole 'lets not weigh myself for 6 weeks' plan has some serious consequences.

The main one being that it appears to have stopped any kind of willpower I had when it comes to healthy eating!

My gym and workouts are still going well but I have not been doing well on the food front!

Think I'm going to have to give in and weigh myself, assess the damage and get back on it.

Hate that I cant just be 'normal' and eat in moderation without being a scales addict but it seems that those weekly weigh ins really do keep me accountable and help me stay on track!

I've had a lot of personal changes at home and work which has created some upheaval in my routine but I need to get it back.

Summer is fast approaching and after working so hard in the first quarter I dont want to blow it all by a few bad weeks!

So the plan is, weigh in tonight, let you all know the results tomorrow and then put a plan together! I've not been fasting and in fairness I've not been a complete pig either but I've def not been monitoring what I've been eating and toast has become a more regular occurence than it should be!

I'm hoping that my workouts might have helped with some of the damage but we'll see!

How often do you weigh yourself?

How do you cope with getting motivation back when you slip up?

Things I love Thursday

Taking a quick 10 mins away from work stuff to have a cup of tea and clear my head! And I thought I'd share with you the things I'm loving this Thursday afternoon : )

How I wish I lived in some quaint town where I could ride around on this collecting flowers and enjoying the sunshine!

In serious need of some new trainers and these look pretty perfect to me!

I love everything about this! Although our garden is nothing like this I dream about summer nights staying out late in the garden!

Serious hair envy!

Serious dressing room envy!! Does anyone else spend an obscene amount of time looking at interior decorating type pics?? And sadly my bedroom still has clothes all over the floor!

Also loving this!!

Found loads of clothes that I've got earmarked for payday but sadly the pics wont play nice so you dont get to see : (

Now to get back to work!

Question - what is on your love list?

WIAW Favourite Eats from the Week

Have decided to get involved in all the blogging WIAW fun by sharing my favourite eats from the last week!

I cant seem to get the button to display - I'm rubbish at this blogging! But if you want to find out more head over to Peas & Crayons to see a selection of some seriously yummy eats!

Lets get started...

First up was my attempt at a healthier breakfast - spinach, beetroot, apples, pineapple and avocado! Surprisingly tasty and the beetroot gives it that gorgeous pink colour.  If I could be bothered dismantling and washing my juicer more often I'd def have this regularly!

Mish mash of things that I fancied - some bulgar wheat, roast chickpeas, spinach and raisins.  This was really good, easy to make and def something I'll make again!

Dinner of the week goes to this yummy concoction - cranberry quinoa, sweet potato and sweet chilli salmon. 

Some fruit for desk snacking - loving blackberries at the moment!

Snack of champions - pink lady apple, cinammon and peanut butter. 

Not a great picture but a veggie stirfry made with a mix of bright coloured veggies and some soy sauce - another firm favourite!

And finally some mexican cous cous - cous cous with salsa, kidney beans, cucumber, tomato, sweetcorn and avocado - perfect for lunches at work!

And now I'm hungry!

Have a great week x

Ditching the scales

Happy Easter and it's April!!

So a quick catch up since I missed last weeks weigh in! I was leaving Thurs morning for the wedding, my size 10 dress fit perfectly and I felt great. Was going to weigh in but it was TOTM and I hadn't been great food wise and I didn't want to see a bad result on the scale which I know would have made me feel down - not what I wanted before a trip away!

So I went, looked and felt great in my dress, ate and drank with abandon and pretty much had an epic time!

Which leads me to my plans for April. I weighed in tonight and I'm 9'13 again which is 2lbs on. And I'm okay with that. I ended March pretty much where I wanted to be so I now need some new goals.

As well as my weighing myself tonight I also took measurements, photos and my body fat percentage. I also started a 6 week cross fit block of classes. So my plan is that I'm not going  to weigh myself again until the 6 weeks are up!

Gaaah, I'm such a scales junkie so this will be hard but I'm determined to do it!

Food and exercise plans.....

Food - pretty simple, im sticking with my 2 fast days a week and will eat clean the rest of the time. I've decided to cut out dairy and bread too. I only usually have rye bread but lately I've had stomach pains after eating it so m going to cut it out completely for the 6 weeks. Dairy is usually only milk in my tea and Greek yoghurt but I've been reading more and more about dairy and it's effects so I'm keen to try and not have it. I'll replace my usual milky tea with green tea which is better for me anyway I guess!

Exercise - I have 2 crossfit sessions a week. Going to keep my 2 Metafit classes too as well as my sporadic body pump and spinning classes where I can fit them in. Still want to run more but we'll see how that goes! And the last one is yoga - all my local classes are at stupid times so I'm looking into DVDs - an recommendations?

And that's it - 2 months until Summer : )

Hope you all had a great Easter!

Lisa xx