Stop waiting for Friday, for Summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.
Yesterday I saw evidence of what a difference a week can make to how you're feeling and your motivation. Yes I had lots of new members that joined last Thursday and had great results this week, that's expected because they join with motivation and determination and a WANT to do it. However when a member who's been struggling for a long time finally says, enough's enough, let's do this and follows the plan again 100%, tracking, planning, the lot, then rocks up and loses half a stone - BOOM! That's the difference a week can make! Proof right there that the plan works if you do.
7 Days, break that down, it's 168 hours, break that down even more, we have to sleep so if you spend 7 hours a night in bed, that's 49 hours accounted for, so now we're down to 119 hours, that's how many you have to get through to have that first good week, which if you're struggling is always the toughest. Could you for one week only have nothing tempting in the house, just to give you that kick start. Surely your family would support you just for one week, or ask them to hide their junk/treat food.
17 hours a day for 7 days, if you work or even if you don't you can find stuff to fill some of those hours. Make sure you have a plan for your meals. Make it as simple as possible for yourself. Maybe have the same breakfast each morning, you could buy 7 delicious ready meals for your evening meals, you could do the same for lunchtimes if you have access to a microwave.
Make sure you only buy food that's going to support your week, so a few weeks ago in my workshop, we put together a list of things that could be on your list to help you lose weight, they included (in no particular order!)
Pataks Saag masala sauce (11SP a jar)
Fresh & Tinned fruit in juice including sliced apples
Fry light - there are lots of flavours now including a BBQ & Grill one
Haricot Beans - to make zero baked beans with the WW BBQ sauce
Asda's Stewed steak (5SP) can
Sugar free jelly
Pancake syrups / Skinny syrups (you can get sugar free versions)
Choc Shot - Sweet Freedom
(sweet freedom have 2 new flavours coming to Aldi for a limited time on 18th April)
Eggs
WW ready meals
Chopped tomatoes, passata
Bob Milk or skimmed milk
Tinned tuna
Natural or 0% Greek yogurt
Bagel thins / sandwich thins
Sainsburys flat breads (3SP)
Heinz WW Tomato soup (1SP can)
Tinned new potatoes
Tinned mixed beans or any beans
Porridge oats
Fish
Babybel lights
Pickled onions
Philadelphia light
Ski Yogurt Pouches (Aldi)
WW Spaghetti - tin
Laughing cow lights and the blue cheese ones
Frozen veg
frozen garlic, ginger and chilli
Options hot chocolate sachets
meringue nests
Hoola Hoops Puft / Pombears / French fries
WW Popcorn and all the products in their workshops for a sweet or savoury fix
Halo ice cream
frozen cauliflower rie
Benefit - Jaffa cake bars - Aldi (2SP I think - check)
Pink n White wafers (2SP)
Snack a Jacks (caramel 2SP)
Asda caramel rice cake 1SP
Wafer thin chicken or turkey 0SP
ready cooked chicken breasts 0SP remove any skin
Birds eye chicken breasts chargrills 3SP each
Penn Road butchers chicken breast sausages 2 for 1SP
Flava Mint Marinade (8SP a pack I think, check)
Maggi Papers (1SP each)
If you can think of anything else, add it in the comments of the post.
Right I'm gonna get on with my day, things to do, places to be, can't believe it's Friday already - where did this week go! Love getting a better work/life balance, I used to feel like I was at work all the time, now I don't, still love the work but I love other stuff too.
Here's to a very great day, just think if you haven't been doing great, if you start today, 168 hours, 49 of them in bed, this time next week, you could be feeling as good as that lovely lady did last night when I said, "Wow, you've lost half a stone!" Trust me, her face was a picture and everyone in the room was absolutely thrilled for her too.
Stay BeYOUtiful.
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