19th March 2012
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but
tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. Lyndon B. Johnson
What a difference a year
makes! And if you’re interested in what
a difference it can make don’t miss my meeting this week.
I’ve just opened my blog
from the 19th March 2011 to see what I was doing on this date last
year and I was off out for a posh lunch at a Michelin star restaurant with my
friends, so it was a Saturday. That was a lovely meal and a great laugh, which
I’d also had the day before when we’d had a training day and gone for afternoon
tea where I remember we giggled an awful lot.
I’m lucky that I can say
this last 12 months has been fantastic for me, I’ve really enjoyed it and I’ve
maintained my weight having all that fun, so now I know I can maintain maybe it’s
time for me to lose that last half stone and see if I can maintain that too. Yeah thinking back at some of the giggles we’ve
had in the last year, I don’t remember what we were necessarily eating but I do
remember some of the things we were giggling at, so maybe what’s on the plate
doesn’t matter so much in the scheme of things, I can’t even remember what we
ate at that Michelin meal, I just remember it looking posh and the wine tasting
particularly good!
Did you know that every day
we have roughly 200 thoughts about food alone, no wonder we find it so
difficult to lose weight, if you think about it, the majority of our social
activities revolve around food. It was Mothers
Day yesterday and I’m guessing a lot of you received chocolates, because from
the day we are born food and love go hand in hand, your mom feeding you, then
when your a toddler food is used as a consoler if you fall over or a treat if
you’re good, so it makes sense that your loved ones buy you chocolates to show
they love you.
It’s also no surprise that
we turn to food to cheer us up when we’re down, but you can turn that habit
around, with time and practice. I now
phone a friend for a good chat now if I feel down, or arrange to meet up for a
giggle, it’s much more satisfying than eating.
Yesterdays weather showed
how changeable the weather can be, we had rain then snow with flakes the size
of golf balls followed by lovely sunshine, my mate 30 miles away got hail
stones! We’re as changeable and as
different as the weather, each of us has a reason for joining Weight Watchers
and wanting to lose weight. Can you
remember yours? What motivated you to
walk through the doors? Why did you want
to lose weight? Really, really think
about the reason or reasons? There will
have been a deciding moment, a tipping point, it might have been something
someone said, or a photo your saw, a thought you had. And when you recall that reason, hold onto it
because that’s your motivation for staying focused and on track.
My final straw was taking
my moms elasticised waist trousers on my holiday of a life time back in
February 2004, realising I had no photos of me from that holiday because I didn’t
want proof of my size, and even after that it still took me a month or so to go
to Weight Watchers because I thought I could do it on my own. I knew what to do and how to do it, so I didn’t
need to go somewhere to do it. Guess
what I DID, and once I did, I lost and I think sitting here typing this has
made me realise if I want to lose this half stone, I have to go join a meeting
again but I need to find the right meeting with the right leader for me. Mmm that’ll give me something to do today! Find a meeting.
However you coped this
weekend, don’t miss your meeting this week and find the time to stay and sit
down for the talk as that’s what makes the difference, Weight Watchers works
because of the group support. Xx
Bad weekend? Draw a line under it and fresh start this
morning. I spent some time on the Weight
Watchers website yesterday, it’s got so much stuff on there to help and
motivate you, so if you’ve got your monthly pass go have a play. It’s even got a virtual cocktail bar – what more
can a girl want!
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