Anne Marie's Doughnut Muffins.

I loved watching 'The Great British Bake Off' and it seems to have inspired a bit of a home baking revival. Yesterday I made shortcrust pastry, I haven't made my own pastry for years. None of this is good when you're a WeightWatcher member.

Didn't stop me from trying out this recipe for these Doughnut Muffins, did it? My motivation to lose weight is low and I'm going to have to catch myself on. Well, I decided I'd make 6 instead of 12!

I only ate one....Promise!

Back to Biking!

I've been doing lots of walking lately but now it's time to up the exercise!
I haven't been on my bike for ages and it was a wibbly-wobbly start.


Down at Minnowburn Beeches I stopped to look at this fungi.




In another few weeks, when the trees change colour, it is even nicer here.


At Shaws Bridge there were canoeists canoeing.


Bike ride over, sore backside, clicky knee.....covered 6 miles!

Oh, and it's down to Halfords later for all the 'must have' biking accessories - like comfy saddle, helmet and saddlebag!

Biking doesn't come cheap.

Spicy tomato and Butternut soup.

I thought after 14 weeks of 'weightwatching' I ought to try a recipe from my Weight Watchers leaflets.

This soup is good value at 0 pro points but, as I was roasting the veg, I added 6tsp of oil from a jar of chargrilled peppers making it 1 pro point per serving. That's still pretty low when every point counts.


I added Harissa paste instead of using fresh chilli


Ready for roasting and nice colours!


Lunchtime and 5 Pro Points out of a daily allowance of 29 - and the soup was really good.

Made it!

Today I treated myself to lovely fresh fish, fruit and veg from Lisburn Market.


Because I made the 1 stone goal! My reward was a glass nugget.


A piece of this cake would have been better...


No it wouldn't!!

Motivation.

I sat and looked at this scene spread out on that old table while I was waiting for our motivational talk. I'm sure people wondered why I would want to take a photo of that.
I don't know why but it reminded me of something from yesteryear. I never, ever, thought I'd be sitting in a room of folk all trying to lose weight. I would never have walked through the door only for my neighbour asking me to go along with her.
When I was younger I vowed I would never put on any weight - that was what happened to other people, not me. But those extra pounds creep on gradually. To me it shows a lack of discipline.
Well, now they're creeping off gradually and I'm quite liking this weight loss programme. I'm aiming for the 1 stone goal at weigh-in next Tuesday. I don't want to keep coming back and looking at that old table.... and that's my motivation.

Silver 7.

I reached the 5% goal today... I got two stickers. Cream bun would have been nice!
Still a bit to go though.

Weight Watchers

I joined a new club and I paid the joining fee.
Then I bought new trainers for the extra walking I'm intending to do...and so far,it's more ££££££££££££'s lost than pounds and ounces.