Monday, 20 January 2014

J is 7 months old



Wow where did that time go it felt like only last week I was writing the post about J being 6 months old.I suppose with Christmas and everything time has gone really quickly.

Well in the last month J has now learnt to sit up all by him self and hardly woobles, I've even discovered he can spin on the spot if he really wants to face the other way. Probably like most babies he wants everything and especially those things that aren't his. He's also learnt how to roll from his back to his front but not back the other way yet. Though he's good at doing a 360o spin on his belly.

Weaning, well we've not massively improved in the last month I try and give J breakfast around 9-10 which is normally porridge and fruit purée and then lunch about 1-2 but that always depends on what we're doing. I have been very lazy and been using the pouches I find them much easier than making my own food and a lot less stressful in the sense I don't have to worry about what's in them. Also at nursery he's had home cook meals purried down. I'm hoping that in the next week or 3 I will get J up to 3 meals a day but worse case I know this will happen once I go back to work. He's not dropped any bottles yet but tends to take an ounce or two less every day.

He's now just growing out of his 3-6 months clothes just still in his 3-6 month sleep suits and 0-6 month sleeping bags. He's also now out grown his bouncy chair and I have just moved his jumperoo up to the next level though I've had to put a cushion back under it. He enjoys his rocker but is still too short to reach the floor when in the walker mode.

Swimming is still going well but I have to be honest I'm not sure how many more terms we will continue with, we're just about to start our 3rd term so I shall see how that goes.


I wonder what the next month will hold for us?

Monday, 13 January 2014

Simple start week 1

This year weight watchers introduced a new part of their plan called simple start. 
Simple start involves following the filling and healthy list and you are also allowed to have 2 treats a day for the 1st 2 weeks after this you can then have your 49 weeklies but with the treat if you don't have it one day you can't have carry it over to the next.

This was my menu this week

Saturday 
Breakfast Starbucks skinny caramel macchiato 
Lunch BLT in brown thins
Dinner steak mushrooms and sweet potato fries homemade
Treat packet of weight watchers biscuits & weight watchers bar

Sunday
Breakfast shredded wheat & skimmed milk
Lunch plan chicken salad in nando's 
Dinner prawn gumbo
Treat weight watchers bar 

Monday
Breakfast coffee
Lunch BLT in brown thins
Dinner chicken & bugler wheat with peppers and courgette 
Treat hot chocolate & mellows

Tuesday
Breakfast banana 
Lunch chicken salad in brown thins
Dinner moussaka 
Treat weight watchers bar

Wednesday
Breakfast porridge banana and cinnamon
Lunch dippy eggs & brown thin soldiers 
Dinner whole meal pasta, mushrooms & bacon 
Treat hot chocolate

Thursday 
Breakfast shredded wheat & skimmed milk
Lunch ham & chicken salad in brown thins
Dinner sticky hot gammon steaks, home made wedges & green beans
Treat hot chocolate & the honey in the gammon recipe

I weighted in Friday morning and have lost 3lbs this week which is what I put on over Christmas but I'm pleased with that. I've found the simple start ok I've not been hungry and I've not missed certain things I've actually been quiet impressed with what I can actually eat.

Start weight : 11 stone 9lbs
Weight today : 10 stone 6.5lbs
Weight loss so far : 16.5lbs
Goal weight : 8 stone 11lbs
Lbs to goal : 23.5 

I'm going to follow the simple start again this week so will let you know how I get on.