On the wagon again… trundling
Posted by Grete in Health, Life, tags: back, dieting, eating, Health, nutrition, slimming world, success
As probably anyone who reads this blog knows (all 2 of you ;)), I’ve been dieting for quite some time off an on. I did well using Weightwatchers Online and came down from 23 stone to 18 and then it all just… stopped. No matter what I did I just couldn’t get below that and ended up really fed up and decided to take a break.
To my shame my weight has slowly (and thankfully it has been slowly) crept up again by 2 stone, so still 3 stone lighter than when I began but I know what I am like and that trend would continue until I was back where I started.
And I just can’t go there again.
Some of the extra weight is lean muscle formation as I have been working out at the gym once or twice a week and then doing aqua-aerobics on a friday (highly recommended, it’s hilarious!). I do have to accept responsibility for the rest though (and I am). My shape has changed quite dramatically thanks to the exercise and I still feel proud of that achievement, but the rest.. not so much.
My back has been playing up due to the extra weight and while I shouldn’t need that as the impetus to lose again, the fear of again having to use a stick to walk has given me the kick up the backside I needed. Fear is a very powerful motivator.
I was going to go back to using Weightwatchers but it wasn’t really appealing because I’d been doing it for so long and was tired of it. A few friends have been doing Slimming World and had some good results. One friend in particular has done amazingly well and to name and applaud the man who is like a big brother to me – Simes! He has been really inspiring.
So I decided to give Slimming World a chance. I joined once a long time ago and did OK but didn’t go for very long. I’d heard good things about the changes and the most shocking thing to me… I wanted to go to the meetings instead of doing it online.
Just to touch on why that’s shocking – My mental health is about as good as it’s going to get at this stage and that’s OK, I am stable in the right environment and am making more of an effort to get out of the house to places I know well and feel safe. Going to somewhere new and unfamiliar is horrendously scary for me and even a year ago wouldn’t be something I would be able to do. A stroke of luck came from a girl who is in the same aqua-aerobics class as me, we were chatting about slimming world and she said she goes to the same location and class that I wanted to and she understood my fear and it was a huge relief that I would know someone there and it made me more determined.
So Tues 22nd I signed up, got weighed (eek) and stayed for the meeting and it was really great. Everyone was so friendly, and were all shapes and sizes. Some people were just starting like me or were on their journeys or had finished them but stayed so they could maintain their loss. It was just a really positive experience.
So this week was my first weigh-in and I thought I’d done OK, the diet was actually really easy to follow and I never went hungry but there is always that voice in the back of your head saying ‘don’t be daft, you won’t have lost anything’.
I was stunned and happy to prove it wrong to lose 7.5 1bs and got my first award sticker!!!
I know every week won’t be like that as usually you do lose quite a bit your first week but it was still an amazing boost and am happy to settle into it now and try and do a nice steady 1-3 lbs per week.
Wish me luck!!!






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