10th September 2013
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone
sees it.” Confucius
Being all RA RA RA is fantastic, however it can also be
short lived! When it comes to weight
loss you need some realism, we won’t always feel motivated, it’s highly
unlikely that you can keep that enthusiasm up all the time, there will be days
when we want to think ‘sod it’ and that’s when having your surroundings sorted
comes into its own. What isn’t there can’t
be eaten - simple as that really!
The other thing that helps enormously is having routines
in place that become habit so you no longer consciously think about them, so
mine would include always weighing my food so that portion sizes are correct,
wearing my pedometer to encourage me to be active, cooking with good
ingredients to give me deliciously tasting food, and many more that I’m no
longer even aware of.
So this week in the meetings we’re looking at meal
planning, and I’m also going to be telling the tale of Rachel the rebel, if you’ve
ever really struggled with wanting to lose weight you’ll really be able to
relate to Rachel and I’m very grateful to her for letting me share her story, I
think a lot of you will recognise yourself in her words!
Meal planning I won’t lie scares me a little because I
don’t know what I’ll fancy on any given day, so I’ve done my planner so that I
have a choice of breakfasts, dinners and teas to choose from so that I can
decide on the day, I’m thinking tomatoes on toast for breakfast this morning,
but then anything can change in the next hour!
I found some wonderful ways of counting down your weight
loss yesterday from pegs to pebbles, and I’ve made my own using a little
chalkboard I had from the pound shop, it’s now propped up in my office as a
constant reminder of what I’d love to achieve by December.
I also sorted out my photos from Sunday and noticed that
one looked very similar to a photo that was taken over ten years ago in Lanzarote,
the location may have changed, we may have aged but the smiles remain the same. It reminded me that whatever you weigh, if
you’re emotionally and physically healthy and happy then the smile can shine
bright regardless.
I finish my antibiotics today – 3 weeks of them I’ve taken
and the lump in my neck is still there but it's painfree thankfully, they’ve truly messed about with my tummy though so I’m hoping to get it back to
normality and get this weight lost! Obviously
not all in one week ;-)
Let’s make Tuesday tasty shall we by eating gorgeous and
of course it goes without saying being BeYOUtiful. Xx
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