Your opinion of yourself
is the one that really counts!
Yay it’s Friday, I do
love my work but boy do I love my play too ;-) Bring on my monthly booze up
with the bestie, we’ll be asleep by 8pm of course because we’re proper light
weight these days!
Anyways I feel I need to
clear up a misunderstanding that came to light yesterday in my meeting when I was
talking to two different members at two different times, they were under the illusion
that I eat perfect all the time because they see the meals I post on Facebook
and in my blog. Mmm nope I don’t, I
struggle to stay within my daily ProPoints allowance too, I can honestly admit
I haven’t stuck to 26 ProPoints once in the last 5 weeks, that’s why I’m always
wearing my pedometer trying to earn more and that’s why I worship the weekly
allowance because it is the nearest thing to a god I’ve ever had as without it
my life would feel empty!
Yes I cook, I like
cooking, I haven’t always liked cooking but once I started to and I read a few
cook books, articles, had a dabble in the kitchen I realised it wasn’t as
difficult as I thought it was and I started to experiment. I found that the simpler a meal was the
tastier it was, the quicker it was to prepare the more I enjoyed it because I hadn’t
slaved in the kitchen for hours, and I also realised if I used ingredients I liked
the taste of and made recipes that included those ingredients then I was more
than likely going to enjoy the meal. And
most of all I realised that just because someone else thinks something is
delicious doesn’t mean I will, I nearly always know just by looking at a recipe
whether I’m going to enjoy the dish now without even cooking it.
The main reason I cook
is because I get more for my allowance, the portions are bigger and I’m in
control of the flavour, so that is why you get to see the photos on
facebook.
However the flip side,
so that I put to rest this misconception that I’m a “diet angel”, I do those
things that don’t involve cooking, like coming home on a Thursday lunchtime
ravenous from the morning and instead of opening a tin of soup like I’ve said I
was going to, I ram a slice of bread with ketchup and wafer thin beef down my
throat – yes RAM, because if I said I tasted it I’d be a damn liar. Whilst doing this I’m throwing oven chips and
chicken pieces in breadcrumbs in the oven because I’ve now got the ‘white mist’
and I’m not thinking logically about food, I’ve just got this “I need to feed”
thing going on in my mind, I’m thinking to myself I’ll ProPoint it once it’s in
the oven, I’m starving and by the time its cooked and I’ve added another slice
of bread into the equation, I’ve just inhaled approx 30pp in under an
hour! All because I didn’t plan my
lunch, nope I proudly posted that lovely cheese and potato pie yesterday that I’d
prepared for my mates dinner and for some stupid reason, I hadn’t made myself
one! To make it even worse, my mate was
messaging me at the same time as I’m eating the worst meal I’ve had that week
telling me how delicious her pie is! You
gotta laugh ain’t ya! It’s all a
learning curve that’s for sure.
So please never thing I’m
something I’m not, I’m the girl who eats multipacks in minutes, I’m the one who
walks in MacDonalds saying to herself, “happy meal, happy meal, happy meal”,
then gets to the counter and says “can I have a big mac and fries please”, then
when asked if I’d like large, my tourettes kicks in and I go, “no no no, yeah
go on then”. I’m the person who sit in
KFC drive in waiting to buy a 2 piece and fries, then when she sees the options
and scrolls down realises for an extra fiver she can have enough chicken to
feed the street! So I do but of course
when I get home I don’t share it, I just eat it throughout the day and for
breakfast the next morning.
Yep I’m one of the
reasons Weight Watchers exists because I need support, I need that guidance and
advice to help keep me on track and remind me why I’m doing this. Every on who struggles with an aspect of
their life as I do with food should buy in additional self belief, use an
outside supply to give you a boost - high achievers in all aspects of life use
coaches and outside trainers to strengthen themselves, it’s not a sign of
weakness, it’s another one of your tools to keep you strong! I love my Weight Watcher leader, just seeing
her on a Saturday morning reminds me WHY I’m there.
So if you’ve missed your
meeting this week and you couldn’t get to me why not come and visit her (and
me) Saturday morning at our meeting, Avon
Business & Leisure Centre.
Avon Road, Cannock, Staffordshire WS11 1LH. She weight 9-10.30 and talk is at 10.30. There is always a meeting somewhere that you
can get to, no matter how busy you are. Always
make time for yourself, you’re important too, enjoy your meeting, use it to
your own advantage, to help you lose the weight.
I’ve asked new members
the last few weeks, “what would losing weight mean to you?” The most popular response, which is always
said instantly without any thought is, “THE WORLD”! Surely that’s work half hour of your time if
that’s how important it is to you. Xx
I’ll leave you with that
thought, me I’m off to get my last bit of paperwork done, I’ve got a feast
planned for me and my mate, it will be ProPointed (I’m not promising it’ll be
within our allowance though) because it’s my one day of the month when we don’t
care, it’s our WHOOP WHOOP day ;-0)
I stayed the same on the
scales this week btw if you were wondering, that’s 4lb lost in 5 weeks, I can
live with that, I’m having a great time losing it.
Yippee it’s Friday –
welcome to the window of the weekend. xx
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