19th October 2012
Chose a job you love, and you will never have
to work a day in your life. Confucius
It’s been an emotional week! In my meetings
we’ve been talking about none scales victories, the small or big achievements
that you achieve from losing weight that can’t be gained just from numbers going
down on the scales. I’ve heard some fab
examples from members including
- Being able to zip up knee length boots.
- Being able to wear your wedding ring again.
- Being able to wear ‘one-size’ tights without the crotch being somewhere close to your knees!
- Not having to ask for the extension belt on aeroplanes.
- Having the water in the bath go all the way around you & not creating a damn one side.
- Being wolf whistled in public when all she’d heard before was abuse!
- Feeling satisfied after meals & enjoying your food. (Love these ones!)
The funniest one I’ve ever heard though was a woman who’d lost 8.5
stone being road raged by some idiot, now I don’t know if you’ve ever been road
raged but it can be quite scary when they actually start following you! Anyway she had to stop for the traffic lights
and this idiot got out of his car screaming abuse, got to her car window and
banged on it (she didn’t open but could hear the loudness through the window),
she was terrified. Then he shouted, “What
were you thinking you SKINNY daft bitch?”
Well she was stunned, this had never happened before, she wound her window
and said, “oh thank you, thank you, thank you young man!” He looked at her like she was a looney and
stormed off muttering to himself. She
couldn’t believe she’d just been called SKINNY every other aspect of the
situation had gone out of her mind, she was made up! You’ve got to love how a women’s brain works!
Yes, it was wonderful to hear the personal triumphs of so many, men and
women because it’s just as important to both.
We then talked about our reasons, why we should make it a priority for
us to lose weight, I used an example from a book I read last weekend, A Weight
Watcher member named Edwin Hood to demonstrate why it should be a priority. Now I’ve read a lot of diet books, there’s
not many things I haven’t read about regarding losing weight, why we are
overweight, what it feels like to change etc etc, however Edwin said a line
that moved me immensely! He said, "I got my life back and
I never knew it was lost." How true is that! If you’re looking for a reason to stay with
it, that’s a good one!
This one line yesterday morning almost reduced me to tears in my
meeting, even though I’d already read it out in every meeting prior. For some reason as I read it, in my mind I
went back 9 years to the person I used to be, a very unhappy, angry,
anti-social woman (I’m there again now lol, cos I’m sat with tears in my eyes).
I didn’t even realise I was unhappy back then – it was just my norm, it was who
I was, I was abrupt, quite rude at times and didn’t really interact with new
people well. I remember once standing at
a bus stop and a lady started making small talk with me and I stood thinking, “why
are you talking to me!”
Boy how I’ve changed, now I’m the one making the small talk, I start/interrupt
conversations in supermarkets all the time, I had a lovely discussion with an
old lady Monday about cooking sponge cakes in the microwave (I’ll share that
recipe with you another day).
So unlike Edwin, I didn’t get my life back – I GOT A LIFE!
I couldn’t be much happier than I am these days, I love everything about
my life, I have the best job, I have the most amazing friends, I meet people
every day who inspire and amaze me. Even
on the bad days, when I’m hormonal, or when moms playing me up because she’s
like a big soft kid and doesn’t do ‘ill’ very well, or every thing is just
going wrong – I’m still content, I realise it’s just part of life and you can
embrace it or fight against it!
Now don’t get me wrong I’m not saying if you’re overweight you’re
unhappy because that is absolutely NOT the case, I’m only saying that I
was. I don’t even know if it was being
overweight that made me unhappy or being unhappy that made me overweight and
you know what I don’t care and it don’t matter because I am not that person anymore. I’m not for analysing my past, I’m more interested
in enjoying my future.
If you’re struggling with your weight at the moment and struggling for
a reason to continue, find your spark, find your reason to make it matter! Ask David Kirchoff says in his book ‘The
Weight Loss Boss’ “How do you make it a priority in your life? Ask yourself if
you believe weight loss will have a meaningful impact on the quality of your
life. Do it for the right reasons, but find the right reasons to do it.”
I’ll never forget my reasons, I may go up and down with my weight now I’m
near my goal but I will never ever allow myself to go back to that state of
mind and that weight I started at. Oh on
that note I did gain this week 1.5lb, if I hadn’t I think I’d have gone to the
doctors because what I ate last week was too much. I’m ok with that, as soon as I got home I
planned my week out, I decided I love having toast for breakfast so I started
there with two slices of Hovis seeded bread and worked from there, I roughly
decided how many ProPoints I would spend at lunch and dinner and have made sure
that with my weeklies and any activity ProPoints I earn on my pedometer I can indulge
in that liquid that need not be named ;-)
On that note I’m off to prepare lunch, we’re having honey and mustard
chicken with rice, using a Chicken Tonight low fat jar. Ooo I had lamb shank in mint gravy last night
(Morrison’s 2 for £7), the whole box is 12 but I had about 8pp worth and gave
the rest to Alfie, it was very tasty.
Yep this week is all about comforting winter warming foods for me. Oh my stew was ok by the way after I added a couple more oxo cubes and a splash of worcestershire and soy sauce.
YAY it’s FRIDAY! Whoop Whoop
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