16th
September 2014
If life
was easy, we would be bored, that’s why we are faced with challenges every day,
so that we can work to keep ourselves happy!
Together is Better!
Well
check me out, I’ve joined Weight Watchers, of course I never left but I haven’t
been going to meetings nor did I have myself a leader, so yesterday that’s
exactly what I went and did. I
considered driving out of area so no one knew I was a leader but then realised
I have a meeting almost on my doorstep with a good leader and does it really
matter if everyone know me, leaders need support too, it’s how we lost our
weight in the first place! My leaders
lovely, she’s friendly but she was direct when she needed to be with me and I’m
hoping the thought of that conversation at the scales next week will be enough
to keep me on track this week. She made
me smile when I said “26 ProPoints just isn’t enough”, she replied “it was
enough when you got to goal 10 years ago”, that gave me food for thought, yes I
like eating large portions but I don’t need to because I’ve survived on smaller
portions before and not starved to death, so portion control is the top of my
agenda this week. I’m not talking tiny
portions, just realistic ones, and asking myself do I really need a slice of
bread with that. Yeah I will have me a
weight loss next week, 99 days to Christmas, 14 more weigh-ins, I could be back
at goal by then if I stopped messing around!
I found
out a pair of jeans I bought in 2002
when I was in California, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I can still
actually get them on, I can’t fasten them but I didn’t think I’d get them over
my thighs to be honest so they are going to be my none scale victory, I’m going
to try them on every couple of weeks and see if the button is getting closer to
fastening. Heck I should hang em on the kitchen fridge or lay them on my wine
collection ;)
What is
good is I don’t feel negative about it all, my reasons for losing weight are
positive ones, it’s a health thing, I’m already happy, I realised from last night’s
meeting, I don’t have a confidence issue, losing weight won’t make me feel more
confident in myself, although from memory I think it probably did when I first
got to goal but I had more to lose then, it made me feel more comfortable about
going out once I’d lost my weight. There’s
nothing worse than trying to buy clothes when you’ve gained weight and don’t
feel good about yourself, I do remember that feeling, I never want to feel that
way again, so that can be a motivator too.
Ooo I
know not everyone likes it but we had liver and onions for tea (filling and
healthy) I added a little bit of chorizo to the liver and onions when they were
frying, it really added a nice bit of extra flavour, I didn’t use as much bisto
gravy as I probably normally would, mainly because I’d run out, there was only
a bit left in the bottom of the tub and we shared a large jacket potato rather
than having on each. Yes there was still
plenty on the plate, portion creep is definitely a habit, I’d even got back to
using the bigger round plates!
So I’ve
just taken a couple of salmon pieces out of the freezer, that’s lunch sorted
probably with brown rice and peas, I want to make that beef curry again that I
made last week, it was delicious so could make that for tea or get it ready for
tomorrow, we shall see. I need to get my
‘on track’ head on, thinking before eating, it makes a difference, it’s too
easy to leave it to the last minute. I
forgot to have breakfast yesterday was so caught up in messing about in my
office so it was about 11.30am by the time I remembered and I ended up having a
big brunch of chicken, sweetcorn and mayo wraps, then I was out and about
running errands and didn’t have my tea until half seven which meant I ate two
large meals, not the best for my digestion system I realised, which is another
reason I need to watch my portion sizes, my stomach struggled to cope with
those two large meals, so today is all about awareness.
The aim
is to get to a place where you follow the plan mindlessly most of the time,
which I think I do in all honesty otherwise I’d be back where I started, I’ve
just gone a little bit astray and need to get mindful again!
Right
let’s have a great day BeYOUtiful, and use the question, “do I need all that on
my plate?”
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