Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. Lance Armstrong
Apparently
women are powerfully connected to the moon's cycles,
and this weekend is a harvest moon the FULL Moon closest to the autumnal
Equinox and one of the most powerful of the year. It’s a good time to let go of the old
repetitive patterns that no longer serve you, and deeply open up to new
experiences that support all of your NEW choices and opportunities to love more
FULLY in the world. True or not,
worth a go I reckon don’t you!
I’m constantly working on changing for the better, it’s the only
guaranteed constant isn’t it change, whether we like it or not. One of the biggest changes I’ve made over the
years is not having something to eat as soon as I fancy it! I realised if I do then I’m never going to
stay at an acceptable weight for me.
Being a Weight Watcher leader food is a constant conversation, members
are always telling me what they’ve eaten, sometimes it’s because they feel the
need to confess, other times it’s because they’ve enjoyed a recipe or meal and
want to share their knowledge. I leave
every meeting with at least one idea of something I want to try, which gave me
the idea of a ‘to eat’ list a bit like a ‘to do’ list, instead of going home
and having it that same day, I added it to the list of things to eat at some
time in the near future. So an example
would be a jam doughnut which was mentioned Wednesday morning by a new member
who’d been following the plan for a week, she confessed to working in Greggs
and getting free food, when I enquired what she’d indulged in, she’d been
pretty good, only 2 jam doughnuts all week.
When you think of what she could’ve eaten, I think she did amazingly
well, being surrounded by all those sandwiches and pastries! I hadn’t had a doughnut for a long time, so
added it to my ‘to eat’ list, yesterday after my Weight Watcher meeting which
was fab as always, the lady who was going to buy herself nice new shoes when
she lost her stone, did just that yesterday – how fab ;-). Anyway after the meeting we went to Asda for
a few odds and ends and a coffee, my latest thing is “speed shopping”, it’s
killing me can I add, I adore food shopping but being on a budget at the moment
and well aware of my shopping costs when I browse - I’m a bargain sucker! So it works in that I write a list of the few
things I actually do need because I’ve got a freezer and cupboard full of food,
and I walk round with a basket (basket because it will only hold so much, it
gets heavy and I’m sure it will break if I too much in!) only go down the
aisles I need to and also going to a shop I’m not used to is helping too, the
final thing that keeps me in check is walking round with my mate because then I
feel like I’m being watched! OMG I think
need ‘SSA’ supermarket shopper anonymous ;-)
I seriously could spend hours and pounds in the places I love them, I
love to look at the foods, the offers, the new stuff, all of it, I just love
food shopping!
Anyway I’m rambling, so we were going to the café first then
shopping but we changed it round because I wanted a doughnut with my coffee as
it was on my list and the food at the café wasn’t, yes it looked good but there
was nothing there I couldn’t live without and I was ignoring the ‘meal deals’ I
wasn’t even going to make eye contact with the boards of info, I knew I only
wanted the coffee and doughnut. We
decided to go buy doughnuts in the store and eat them with our coffee, now when
we got to the bakery section there was a decision to make, ordinary jam
doughnut which actually didn’t look very good, or mini jam doughnuts – no contest,
they looked amazeballs ;-) literally, little ping pong ball sized doughnuts
filled with jam and sprinkled with icing sugar – wow these were gonna be worth
waiting since Wednesday for. So we paid
and went and ordered our coffee, sat down and Lynne dived in and ate one and
said they’re not as good as they look, I took a bite - they were vile! They
were cold (obviously had been in a fridge somewhere prior to being put on the
shelf), stodgy, a bit stale maybe – not good at all. I put the other half back in the box and said
I’m not wasting ProPoints on them, we’ll have a piece of Weight Watcher fudge
instead (I’d won the raffle at my meeting – YAY!)
The day before I’d started reading a book about mindful eating and
it talked about an experiment where they’d given an entire cinema free popcorn
in an experiment, this popcorn was 5 days stale and yet they sat there and ate
it! They kept putting it on the floor
and then picking it back up again and this was almost what we did yesterday
with those doughnuts, because they were they I noticed a couple of times we
both went to eat another possibly hoping they’d improve! We resisted and I returned them to customer service
on our way out, they refunded our £1.10 and we put it in a charity box that was
being shaken in our face on the way out, so not only had we saved ProPoints but
we were now feeling extra virtuous having given money to charity when we’re
both skint lol.
Just in case you were wondering, I did get me a doughnut before
the day was out, I took Alfie out for a 90 minute walk and as I walked past the
shop there was one single doughnut left on the counter and bless the lady she
bought it to the door for me because of the dog, so I earned 7pp on my
pedometer then spent them on a lovely, delicious, gooey, jammy, powdery, soft,
light, yummy, worth every ProPoint doughnut!
I love that weight loss no longer has to involve deprivation!
So it’s Sunday, day of rest for some, I’m planning on cooking a
new chicken stew, going for a long walk, I may even attempt a little housework,
then I’m going to continue reading my books, I have two on the go, one audio
for when I’m walking and one for reading in the house, now that’s
multi-tasking. Enjoy your day all. xx
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