3rd July 2013
Think positive, be positive and positive things will happen.
Isn’t it strange how life changes so much, I was talking to
my boss on Monday and she told me that 8 years tomorrow she will have become
the area manager, previously she was a leader like myself, that made me realise
that 8 years ago this week I was a very unhappy, extremely stressed person
battling with a decision. The most
stressful thing in my life at the moment was that my Norton just told me I had
a Error on my PC which has took half hour to sort out and the cooker that I
smashed on Monday, neither of which have really stressed me out at all. My how times can change!
So it’s been 8 years since I decided I could no longer
continue in my previous job whatever it paid and that I really wanted to do
Weight Watchers full time instead of part time.
It was a scary time, I was giving up a job with an excellent wage and a
company car allowance to go to a job with no guaranteed income! I remember shopping in Kwik Save and trying
to save every penny possible as I also had a huge credit card bill! It was a truly scary thing to do but my only
other option was to continue in my job well paid but unhappy, stressed and
miserable, I was spending everything I was earning and more to try and cheer
myself up and that wasn’t even working - when you look at it like that it was a
no-brainer really.
A weight loss journey can feel a little like that I suppose,
your in a position where you’re overeating and gaining weight, it’s making you
uncomfortable and unhappy because you feel like there’s nothing you can do
because you just can’t stop yourself.
You know you can go on a diet but it’s a scary concept, it means having
to change how you behave and that’s not easy. You’re possibly already stressed
out and feel you don’t need the added challenge but what are your
alternatives? You continue to overeat,
feel uncomfortable and gain weight? The
longer you delay doing anything about it, the harder it will get and the more
you’ll have to lose. So yeah trust me
the challenge is worth it, life is way to short to be unhappy, stressed and/or
miserable.
I lost another half pound yesterday so that’s 2.5lb in 6
weeks, 1/2lb each week expect my holiday week, and I’m putting it down to
realism, I’ve tried doing the plan 100% and losing ‘big’ that first week and I
can’t do it at the moment so instead I’m doing my best, I’m forgiving my strays
from the plan and I’m enjoying it, aiming for 1/2lb each week is realistic for
me right now and I’ve worked out if I lose 1/2lb every 3 weeks out of 4, I’ll
be back at my goal in 8 months, if I can do ½lb most weeks I’ll be there by
Christmas. Sounds like a long time
doesn’t it, but that time will pass anyway and I will enjoy the time, so
win/win, it’s better than having 1 good week, 1 okay week, 1 not so good week
and 1 awful week which has been my pattern for the first 5 months of the year! If what you’re doing isn’t working then you
need to try a different take which is what I’m doing, by focusing on 1/2lb a
week I know I’m more likely to stick to it.
Yesterday I could have eaten my own head; I just wanted food
– any food! So I treated myself to a
Weight Watcher bar and a bag of Weight Watcher bakes they satisfied me in the
afternoon, then when I got back on the night I had a huge bowl of mashed potato
with gravy – weird I know but it worked for me, I wanted comfort food and you
don’t get no more comforting that mashed potatoes. It could’ve been a lot worse as I wanted
loads of chocolate biscuits, cheese and onion crisps and chicken and chips from
the chip shop – damage limitation was put in place!
Well my Norton is still giving me Error messages on my pc so
I better try and sort it out, if only we could run a full system scan on
ourselves to identify and fix our own errors, now that would be useful!
Have a great day, approach it with realism and respect for
yourself, realise that you can only do your best. Xx
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