Love and time; those are the only two
things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. Gary
Jennings
Scrambled
egg on crumpet (8pp), gammon steak with jacket potato and cheese, mushrooms and
cherry tomatoes (13pp), sausage sandwich (10pp), 31pp well spent yesterday, 26pp
from my daily allowance and 7pp on my pedometer gave me 33pp to play with so
the other two would have covered my milk.
I also enjoyed a mango which was absolutely delicious; I chopped it up
on Sunday so it was ready to eat.
It was
brilliant to see such good weight loss in my meeting too Monday morning
(Bloxwich 9.30am), average of 2lb each, and I love that they get involved, talk
and share ideas and experiences, it actually sets me up for the week as well as
my members, Monday mornings always a good day to get refocused of course,
especially if you’ve had a bad weekend, which I’d like to add I hadn’t ;-) I’m hoping for a good result on the scales
Thursday morning, I haven’t been near a set of scales since then so I really
don’t have a clue, I don’t feel any thinner but then again I never do. I want to be healthy and happy that’s my
priority, the numbers on the scale are a bonus, but being a Happy Owl (Over
Weight Lady/Lad) is way more important to me than being a size ten. I realise that finding a leader you like and attending
a meeting really does make a difference, I did that on Saturday morning in
Cannock and I know it helped me, I plan to do it again this week, I need the
support and the motivation, I need someone to remind me why I’m doing this and
that it’s worth it. I want ideas and
suggestions and some ‘me time’ when it’s about me and not my members, yep I
really enjoyed being in a meeting on Saturday morning. For me time is so precious so to take an hour
out of my week isn’t something I do lightly but its important to me to stay
focused and lose weight and therefore I will find the time, same as everyone
else, if you want something you’ll find a way to fit it in. We all have the same number of hours in our
week so its up to us to decide what to do with them.
The one
thing I have realised is that so many of us give food and the effect it has on
us too much power, so now I acknowledge I enjoy it, I like to eat and even when
I’m trying to losing weight I still eat food I enjoy, I don’t ‘settle’ for the
diet stuff we’re expected to eat to lose weight, I’m not willing to drink a
shake instead of eating ‘real’ food, I’m sure as hell not willing to eat in an
unusual combination for example having one food source ‘i.e. carbs or protein’
on my plate at a time. NOPE never again
will I do any of those crazy quick fixes, and I’ll be honest you can do
ProPoints wrong if you make bad food choices, you may lose weight but it wouldn’t
be a good diet. Instead I will continue
to learn new cooking techniques and find new recipes, I will find ways of making
my favourite meals with less ProPoints, I’ll eat smaller portions of my
favourite foods, and snack less so that I can enjoy my meals and I will also
find other ways to relax rather than putting myself in a carb coma!
Yes I will
follow the ProPoints plan correctly, by making my meals count, by using my
ProPoints wisely on food I enjoy such as scrambled egg and the occasional sausage
sandwich, today I have a Chicken Curry which works out at 4pp a portion, even
if I have a double portion that’s only going to be 8pp and some rice for 5pp
would be a huge meal for 13pp whereas getting a ready meal from the supermarket
would probably cost me double that, and twice the price! It also only took 15 minutes to cook, which
shows it isn’t hard work being healthy. 
Like you, I
am worth the effort, the time and the energy to take care of myself and put
myself first so that I get the results I want each week on the scales!
Do you agree
with me? Are you worth the effort
to? Are you going to put yourself first
and find the time to attend your meeting every week so that you get the results
you want?
It may not
happen overnight, but the times going to pass anyway so we may as well use it
to our advantage. Here’s to a brilliant day.
xx
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