26th March 2013
Hello my name is consistency – I make it happen, day in and
day out. You might know my good friend-
success…. We’re always hanging out together!
So yesterday was a toughie, obviously the weather conditions
weren’t great but that wasn’t a problem, the majority of my gorgeous members
still managed to get to me despite the fact you could barely stand up due to
the slippy paths, even Alfie was a bit like bambi when I whizzed him round the
block!
The toughie started when I sat down to do paperwork,
software issues and frustration ensued!
I got myself a little worked up to say the least, yes yesterday I took
myself way too seriously and when you do that you get stressed, it really wasn’t
worth getting stressed about as nothing is worth raising my blood
pressure! The frustration lasted about
2-3 hours when suddenly I realised what I was doing and thought ‘sod it’,
smiled and took a deep breathe.
I didn’t get out of my office till gone five though so I did
get quite a bit done.
The only down side to all that was my eating behaviour, I
was stressed so I ate, I was rushed so I didn’t think about what I ate nor have
time to cook! This I realise is one of the
side effects of stress and another good reason not to get wound up over things
that you can’t change.
Lack of time I just realised when I was in the kitchen
making a cuppa is one of the main reasons we struggle with our weight loss
plans isn’t it, we’re all so damn busy so we feel that we don’t have time to
cook and therefore we grab any old junk, stop at MacDonalds or KFC or order a
takeaway! A change of mindset is needed
here because yes, yesterday there was no chance I had time to cook certain
meals such as a roast lamb dinner because I hadn’t got time for all the
preparation and I’d forgot to get the lamb out of the freezer. I did however have time to do something fast,
this pasta dish that I had for my tea took 15 minutes, and 12 of those was so
the 50g wholewheat pasta (5pp) would cook, I threw 1pp chorizo, 1pp olives, ¼ chopped
orange pepper, 1pp sundried tomatoes, 4 sliced mushrooms, 8 tiny cherry
tomatoes in a pan and cooked them through, the when pasta was cooked I stirred
it all together and added an egg (2pp) which I stirred through as it continued
to cook for another minutes, served with 1pp parmesan cheese. Total of 11pp and totally delicious, now
there are plenty of those kind of meals that can be thrown together to help you stay on track, or
even scrambled or poached eggs on toast,
or beans on toast – there are quite a few options, because the danger of not
taking the time and effort could mean you have a 4pp bag of crisps with a
couple of WW bars 4pp, so 8pp has already gone and you’re still going to be hungry!
Actually I’m just tracking yesterday and I’m
absolutely thrilled, mom and I shared a pepperoni pizza and I was dreading
ProPointing it, but it’s worked out at 11pp for half, and it was delicious, it
would have been better served with a side salad to fill me up, and hopefully I’ll
do that next time! This was the pizza,
it’s a 340g Goodfella’s stonebaked thin pepperoni, very, very tasty indeed and
most definitely worth 11pp for half!
So I’ve realised once again that
stress ain’t worth it and that time is something I’m short of in the week so I
need to have a plan, as with any goal you have in life you have to have a plan –
do you? Is your goal list more of a wish
list than a want list? Are you being
realistic and have you put in place a plan of how you intend to achieve that
goal. Remember it won’t just happen, results
happen with action. Results disappear with inaction. It really is that simple, I can sit here
typing that I’d like to lose half stone, but unless I put some plans into
action that goal is never going to be achieved! So when I sign off in a minute, I will go
downstairs make me a cuppa and plan my meals for the day – stop leaving
everything to chance because that isn’t helping at all.
Today I shall mostly be behaving like
a relaxed Gorgeous BeYouTiful person - care to join me. x
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