If you plant the right seed in the right spot, it will grow without
further coaxing.
Good morning, it’s black as coal outside at the moment, you gotta love
5am when the autumn months start to kick in, I know it feels a little like
winter but it isn’t, still in Autumn officially, although we didn’t really see
Summer did we, it went straight from Spring to Autumn!
The sun did manage to shine yesterday though, and I missed the rain
shower that started just as I put my coat on to walk Alfie, I waited for it to
stop and then went, finished my day with 7pp on my pedometer – nice ;-) but I didn’t
have a glass of wine last night instead I had 2 Farleys rusks mashed in milk,
2pp each they are and now they do a wholemeal version, proper nice they were – I
am easily pleased aren’t I.
I’d also cooked my favourite chicken and bacon casserole from the poultry
recipe cards, that’s took me about 15 minutes to get on the stove then I leave
it for a couple of hours and its delicious, we all like it – even Alfie, the
rice and parsnips in it tastes so good, I shall probably have it for brekkie,
dinner and tea today rather than freezing it, plus today is a very busy day so
it saves me thinking.
Tomorrow will be a little more relaxed and I’m planning on cooking Steak
and Guiness pie again from the recipe card packs, and some time this weekend I’m
going to make butternut squash risotto, I will share that recipe with you if it’s
any good.
My cuppa tastes good this morning, you can’t beat that first mug of tea
of the day, especially when you’ve actually slept till the alarm and you can’t
believe its morning. I was in bed at 9
too, so that’s a good 8 hours sleep I’ve had, woke up by Alfie at about
midnight though, he wanted to go up the garden!
It’s weigh day! And I’m hoping to
have lost the weight I gained last week and a little bit more, my goal is 1lb a
week as an average till Christmas, so 4lb over the month in any way possible, I
realise that our bodies aren’t machines and we don’t have that consistent
loss-loss-loss-loss, well I don’t I get loss big, loss small, gain, loss big
kinda pattern most of the time. I smiled
last night when a member who’d been attending just over 6 months came up to me
and said, “we have a little problem”, at first my heart sank, I thought ‘oh no
what’s wrong’, then she continued, “I’ve had a gain this week”. It apparently was her first gain EVER since
joining the meeting, she’d gained half pound and didn’t know why, I was so
relieved, nothing that can’t be sorted.
Another thing that’s come to my attention this week is members still eat
food they don’t particularly like, or make changes they’re never going to do
long term in search of short term weight loss!
IT DOESN’T WORK! Eventually they’ll
get resentful of eating Weetabix for breakfast when they really don’t like them
and they’ll head to the local fry up café and have the full works. The same happens with the unrealistic changes,
I’ve been there, I’ve done it, you don’t keep them up, it’s much better to put
in place long term realistic changes that you know you can do forever, so I know
that I can (and have) switched drinking as much as I used to pre Weight
Watchers to allowing myself a big glass a night if I want it (last night I didn’t
but I know I always have the choice), to enable me to do this I wear my
pedometer and earn as many activity ProPoints a day as I possibly can, or I
have 49 weekly ProPoints allowance to take from instead. It’s realistic, in the past, I’d join, cut
out all the alcohol for 3-6 months, stay home, lose the weight, get bored, go
out and get drunk then stop dieting because that was much more fun!
In the past I’d live on diet ready meals, now I’ve adapted my favourite
meals so that they have less ProPoints, I’ve created or found recipes that have
my favourite foods in them. I eat what I
fancy but within the correct portion sizes and within my allowance, and if I haven’t
got the ProPoints to have them on that day, I either use my weekly or activity
allowance OR I add it to my good old ‘to eat’ list. I have a recipe for a sausage roll I want to
make that I’ve had for 3 weeks now, there’s no rush, hopefully as far as I know
I’m not going anywhere!
In the past I’ve joined the gym and gone every night for a hour and
resented every minutes, now I walk Alfie instead, it’s my me time, it serves a
purpose, I enjoy it and it gets me out in the fresh air and does me good.
So here’s to the tweaks in your behaviour, the new habits you can create
for long term success that won’t make you feel like you’ve become a completely
different person, to making changes you’re glad you’ve made – to losing weight
in a way that makes you feel great and puts a smile on your face.
End the torture, enjoy the journey. xx 
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