Time For A Change? What Areas Will Have The Most Impact On Your Lifestyle

December is upon us and we can all start to think about some of the changes we would like to make in our lives moving forward. Perhaps this year has been tough, or maybe it was good to you, however you see it, it is always good to go into the new year with some sort of focus about what you want to achieve. This could be work related, to do with the family, or as basic as knowing when you are next taking a break. However you see it, we all like the idea making some changes. It got me thinking about changing your life, can it be done by making changes to your circumstances. I believe it can, and I wanted to share with you some of the ways you can make an impact on your lifestyle in 2018.

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Hubby's Weight Loss

I've shared quite a bit about my weight loss since having my baby and mentioned that my husband (Keith) has been following the Slimming World plan with me. I know people can tell how much weight I've lost since I've lost around 1.5 (9.5 kilos) stone now, but it's not extremely obvious as I have just gone back to what I was. Well since we started recording our weight, Keith has lost 2.3 stone in weight (14.3 kilos). It's the first time he's been this weight in YEARS!!! I don't think he remembers when he was last this weight.

Baby Naming blessing Part 2 - Weight Loss - What I Wore

If you want to see part 1 of these posts click this link:

Baby Naming blessing Part 1 - New Jamberry Wraps

So it's been around a month since my last update on my weight loss. Since that time I've only lost around 4 pounds, but I'm getting to a weight that's been really hard for me to maintain in the past. I've been lower than this, but only when I didn't have a car and walked everywhere because I didn't want to pay for a bus. So I'm really pleased that I've managed to loose those few pounds.

Weight Loss Update

What I wore today

I wanted to give you an update on how I'm doing with my weight loss plan as today was weigh day.

Around a month ago I wrote a blog post about dealing with my post pregnancy weight. I've added the link at the bottom of this page. I had a goal in mind to loose some weight by my babies naming blessing which is a month from now. My main goal is to feel a lot more confident in what I'm wearing.

I'll give you a little background on what weight I had to loose. Before I fell pregnant I'd put on around half a stone since I'd got married. Not because I wanted to, but because it's just one of those things, watching my weight wasn't on top of the list at the time and it's easy to put on a bit of weight. While I was pregnant I put on between 2 and 2.5 stones. I don't know the exact figures as I don't religiously weigh myself, but I know approximately my weights.

Jelly Mousse - Slimming World

This has become our favourite Slimming World sweet treat. It's so quick and easy to make and you can make a few potions that sit in the fridge. Making it a quick dessert after dinner to just grab and eat.

Rice Pudding - Slimming World Syn Free

This was a really easy recipe to make and tasted great. Often when you're trying to find alternatives for recipes you have the memory of what you know something should taste like. So then get disappointed when the alternative doesn't quite match up. 

Slimming World Roulade

I made this Roulade recently which is only 1/2 a syn on Slimming World for the whole cake. I had a quarter serving, which is only 0.125 of a syn. I thought it tasted lovely and it was so easy to make. I had a spare 15 - 20 mins while my baby slept, then finished it off with the fruit later once it had cooled down. I added strawberries and blueberries, but you could add any combo of fruit.

Dealing With My Post Pregnancy Baby Weight

39 Weeks Pregnant

My baby is now 4 months, 3 weeks old and in reality it's not all that long since I had my baby, but part of me feels I should have done more about the extra weight I gained by now. I got rather big while I was pregnant as you can see in the photo, but it was all belly. From what I could tell I hadn't put much weight on elsewhere. For the 9 months of being pregnant I had very little chocolate or sweet things as it made me feel sick. But I did have a packet of crisps daily, the salt helped neutralise the nausea. After I'd had my baby I liked all things sweet again, so it was like I was trying to make up for lost time.

Allow yourself time to eat what you want.
I'm glad I allowed myself time to just eat what I wanted without thought. I'd had 9 months of nausea, heart burn and being sick. The last thing I needed to do was start worrying about what I was eating when I had a new born baby. Although saying that eating healthy was important, especially at first when I was feeding my baby breast milk. The meals I had frozen before he was born really helped with having good, nutritious meals. But I wasn't counting calories and if I wanted bread with the soup or stew I had in the freezer I did.