27th
June 2014
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
Winnie the Pooh! He’s a wise old bear :)
Winnie the Pooh! He’s a wise old bear :)
Old habit die
hard don’t they and I think that accepting this makes a weight loss journey
easier, and what will help to make it even easier is realising and accepting
that sometimes we choose to keep those habits for our own reasons! For example I know that on a Thursday night I’m
shattered by the time I get home, I won’t want to cook, I’ll just want to
collapse in a chair with a glass of red wine, however I still need to eat. Now the obvious thing would be to have something
ready wouldn’t it – so why don’t I! Is
it because I like the idea of being able to just grab a sandwich, have the
option to nip to the shop on way home and pick something up with the
justification “I’m too tired and I’ve been busy” or is it so if I really wanted
to I could have a takeaway and think “I’ve worked hard, it’s a treat”. Mmm possibly all of them, which did I do last
night, the sandwich option; I had a cheese and tomato sandwich followed by a
yogurt so it wasn’t too bad a choice. However
Thursday is a habit I need to get a hold of, I either need to make an extra
dinner on one of the other days and freeze it, or have some microwave ready
meals in freezer for when I’m not up for cooking.
In the meeting
last night when we were chatting, I mentioned that I still haven’t done my
ironing, it’s been since about February I think, my drawers are now all empty
and the top of the drawers have a big pile of clothes on top of them! I
actually realised as I was telling them that the ironing of all of those
clothes actually would probably only take a couple of hours, it’s the thought
of doing it that’s putting me off – in my mind I’ve built it up into such a
huge deal that every time I look at the pile my heart sinks! Then I thought to myself our weight loss
journey can be a little like that before we start, we may feel like we have so
much to lose and it’ll take so long to lose it that it all becomes really
overwhelming and we decide not to start as that’s easier!
Whereas if we
just made that first step (ironed that first dress!), walked into a Weight
Watcher meeting, or something as simple as buying skimmed milk instead of full
fat, or swapping our butter for low fat spread, or maybe going for a 20 minute
walk round the block, anything that just means you’ve started, then next step
becomes easier and once you start to see results and feel better it gets easier
and you start to do things automatically and the journey gets easier and more
enjoyable.
Okay, I’ve
convinced myself the ironing will get done this weekend, not today as today I
will mostly be spending the day in my office doing all my paperwork, I’ll be
lucky to be finished before 4ish, even if I start now, but we’ll see how long I
can stand in here, it’s helping that it’s raining outside! If the rain is in for the weekend, I’m
thinking ironing board tomorrow and a few X-men movies = sorted!
Then if I put
a couple of ready meals on my online order this weekend, I have a solution to
Wednesday and Thursday nights tea, no excuses then, if I do any cooking before
I’ll have an alternative option, I want to have a good read of the Weight
Watchers magazine this weekend see if there’s a recipe or two I’d like to try.
Right I’m off because
I have lots to do and I want to get through it whilst I’m fresh. Ooo quickly before I do, my lunch was
delicious yesterday, tinned mackerel in a spicy tomato sauce (7pp for the can)
with wholewheat spaghetti (60 = 6pp) and I had slow roasted tomatoes, I used my
WW oil sprayer to spray a little olive oil over them (1pp used on all of them)
then drizzled balsamic vinegar on and sprinkled with garlic salt and
pepper. It was delicious, I would
definitely have it again and so easy to prepare.
Have a great
day BeYOUtiful and enjoy your day. xx
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