TV Addicts x

Good Morning Mummy Magic Readers! 

We hope you all had a fabulous weekend and have woken up this Monday morning feeling refreshed and ready for the week ahead!! 

Leeanne and I and our husbands are TV Addicts!!!! WE love TV!! Leeanne is always up to date on cool American series and Nick is obsessed with the walking dead!! 

So last night we had - X Factor, I'm a celebrity, Homeland, and Nick watched Revolution and Walking Dead from Friday night! I do love the X Factor and my favorite is Sam Bailey! I think her voice is incredible!!! So last night Sam Callahan went - I do feel bad for him! I mean the judges are the ones who put him in the show so to slate him every week is so mean!!! 

Ok sooooooo what did we all think about Miley Cyrus's performance - I thought she was really good - normal nothing crazy - I didn't really like Miley before Sunday morning when Chris and I watched a documentary on MTV about her and actually i really like her now!  Her mum is her manager and she's with her every day and they are actually really nice! Nicks a fan anyways but she's grounded and just having fun being in control and being the person she wants to be! I mean wouldn't we all love that! "Its our party we can do what we want / its our party we can say what we want / its our party we can love who we want"  And in all fairness our lives are our party so lets all make the most of them and have some fun!!! 

But most importantly I'm a celebrity is back!!!! I love this show - such a guilty pleasure! I'm sure Joey Essex is favorite to win - who's your fave! I can't wait for Carlton to do the Carlton Dance haha - they are braver than me thats for sure!!! i hate anything creepy crawly!!! 

One more Monday confession - The terrible twosome (me and lee) are once again trying to eat healthy! We have been rubbish at it and we literally ate like pigs this weekend i mean Saturday we had fry up, mcdonalds, indian, ben and jerrys and then yesterday we had bacon sandwiches, pulled pork baps, then i had a banana sandwich for dinner and Leeanne had a Chinese.  So yes you read correct all 3 of my meals yesterday contained bread!!! Horrendous! 

So i've decided i'm making a Monday New Week Resolution! This weeks resolution is no Fizzy Drinks!!!! None what so ever and i'm going to log back on to My Fitness Pal and attempt to stick to my calorie allowance not see if i can eat double/treble the allowance for fun!!!! 

Hope you have a lovely Monday 

5:2 Diet

Our favourite words are "shall we try this diet?" we love a fad diet with the hope that within a week of doing it we would lose that stone we've been hanging on to since baby number 1!!!

We really have tried them all - funnily to NO avail !!!

So here we are after our holidays (we didn't manage to lose the stone in the 19 weeks leading up to holiday despite our best efforts) and so begins the new diet!!!

We did try the 5:2 before holiday but only breifly and we didn't give it our all!!! With a 7lb holiday gain i now have 21 lbs to lose minimum!!! (darn you all inclusive buffet and pancake bar)






So we started on Monday 17th June (2 weeks tomorrow) and the results are in!!! drum roll please......

Jade Loss:        4.5lbs
Leeanne Loss:  5.5lbs

It is such a good diet!!! We found it better to have our fast days planned in advance (i choose days when Honey is at nursery) and to have healthy options in the fridge!

We try to start most mornings with lemon water (30 mins before food) and then home made smoothies (Waitrose frozen smoothie fruit is yum) and home made soups!

I have found it easier to start eating later in the day too!! That helps me alot!! And i like having a small lunch like home made soup and then a normal dinner but small quantity!!!

My Fitness Pal is a great app which tells you the exact calorie value of items and logs a diary for you!  I think this is essential!!

We did have a naughty weekend full of cocktails, Thai food, Fry ups and Chocolate so we feel we could of lost more but life isn't all about depriving yourself!!! We all have busy lifes and whats a weekend of fun in the grand scheme of things!!!



So we decided that we would follow the diet all week and at weekends not calorie count or fast at all just enjoy family time!

Our best tips are being prepared! Get healthy snacks in your fridge ready!! Also the amazing thing about this diet is if you go over on a fast day you can just fast the next day!!!





This diets gets our Thumbs up!!!!


Good luck and let us know how you get on if you try it!

Love
J x


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