This morning we woke up to this gorgeous surprise parcel from what looked like Hotel Chocolat from the packaging! As I get quite a lot of blogger mail from companies to review,  I was totally confused as I wasn't expecting anything from Hotel Chocolat but once I'd opened the parcel I soon realised what it was! My lovely friend Amy had send me this parcel of my fav chocolates as a thank you present for helping her recently redesign her blog and template. 

I cannot say how thankful I am for this lush surprise and think its just such a thoughtful nice gesture! Thank you so much Amy! 

It would mean so much to me if you could all go check out Amy's blog! Let her know you came from this post and be sure to follow her on bloglovin or via email! 

I hope your all having a fantastic start to your weekend! I know I am now with these chocolates to enjoy :) They are my ultimate fav Eton Mess Chocolates and a Mississippi Mid Pie Slab, which are just totally delicious! If you haven't had Hotel Chocolat chocolates before I HIGHLY recommend you do as they are phenomenal! They are expensive but such a nice treat!

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Bit of a random post today but Ive been eating a little healthier since January and have changed up my lunch from sandwiches to the perfect baked jacket potatoes. So I though I'd share with you how I cook mine and what I've been filling them with for lunch. I'm sure you all know how to cook a jacket but I also wanted to share the weight watchers points for those counting. I'm not actually counting at the moment but my weights staying the same and I'm enjoying cooking fresh meals in the evening which is a great!

So I didn't take a photo of the before potatoes but I always choose a nice lunch size potato and prick it in several places all over with a fork so that it doesn't explode in the microwave. I then pop it in the microwave on a microwaveable plate for 12 minutes. I also cook two jackets at the same time as I make one for Craig too.

Once the microwave has binged , I cook both jackets in my halogen oven for 15 minutes in a light spray of flora sunflower oil , a sprinkle of mixed herbs and rock salt.

The jacket potatoes is then ready to fill with whatever filling I have in the fridge. On this occasion I went for a table spoon of garlic & herb cream cheese, a slice of honey cured ham and some avocado. I hadn't ever had avocado before and I'm not quite sure what I make of it yet. Its quite buttery and salty but then on the other hand doesn't really have a taste which was disappointing as it always looks so yummy on Pinterest breakfast recipes. But I would try it again for sure, maybe mine was over ripe.

The weight watchers pro points are -

Jacket potato = 5pp

50% less fat cream cheese = 1pp

1 slice Honey Ham = 1pp

Avocado = 1pp

1 spray Flora sunflower oil = 0pp

Salt = 0pp

Herbs = 0pp

Total Pro points = 8

So that's how I cook a filling and delicious jacket potato, I hope you've enjoyed this post and let me know your thoughts on avocados ? Do they live up to the hype?

Thanks for reading!

I hope you are all having a great start to July! I cannot believe its July already! This year as always is flying by so fast and it feels like we have had no summer here in Wales at all yet!

I just wanted to ask if any of my followers would be interested in some Weight Watchers Posts as I have been doing Weight Watchers now for 13 weeks, wooohoo! I didn't ever think  I would stick to it for this long as its my first ever 'Diet'. I think the only reason I have stuck to WW is that its not really a diet its more of a lifestyle change for me. When I decided to start WW , I really didn't think I would loose any weight as I wasn't familiar with the whole WW system and was so stuck in a rut with my weight. I didn't feel comfortable in any of my clothes anymore and was hiding my weight under my coat as it was winter but on a boiling hot day in April the thought of summer made me decide I had to do something to loose weight. 

So after seeing my friend Laura loose a lot of weight doing weight watchers and me being amazed by it ,she kindly told me everything I needed to know about weight watchers and lent me all her books from her weekly meetings. Craig helped me loads to get started as well as I was stuck on how to work out the points in certain foods and the weight of my portions. He encouraged me to start weight watchers as it was the only diet his mum had done and lost a lot of weight on so he thought it would be a good way for me to loose weight. I really couldn't have done weight watchers with out Craig and Laura helping me get started as I was clueless and rubbish at working out points and the maths behind it all lol! 

So my plan was after the grand national weekend ( April 5th) to start on the Monday (April 8th) , well long story short we got locked inside my dads house with no keys for 2.5 hours and once we were out I caved and ate crisps and a cream doughnut so Instead of setting off on the wrong foot, I decided to start the next day, So Tuesday 9th April. So since then I have been having 26 weight watchers points a day along with my 49 extra weekly points when I need them. Most people save their 49's for drink on a weekend or a treat night but as I don't drink I have just been having a few of my 49's most days and being left at the end of the week with some 49's left over, which is good!  My weigh night is 7pm Tuesday every week with Craig as my adjudicator. 

As the weeks go on though if I want to reach my ultimate weight loss goal I will have to cut off my 49 extra points and only eat 26 a day which will be fine as I do treat myself daily at the moment to a little something for a few of my 49 points :)

I wasn't going to make a weight watchers post until I had lost some weight, so now that I have lost over a stone and I'm still going towards my weight goal , I would love to share my weight watchers experience with you all. So let me know if you would like some more weight watchers posts and updates and If it would help you at all and I will get posting! 

I hope you like this post!

Thank you for reading! 

Sophie

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