Opinions are Like A*****es Everyone Has One!

So I’ve not managed to lose all my holiday weight yet, but I did manage to knock off half a pound yesterday. I was a bit disappointed, but then I remembered it was the equivalent to a bag of sugar and that’s quite heavy.

  After the meeting, Lucy and I went to the local supermarket, there we bumped into Karen (remember her from blog number 2 – “Fat Barren and Dead”) the more I talk to Karen, the more I think she has no concept of personal space. Before I knew it, her & her newly dyed red hair (think Holly off “Geordie Shore”) were stood a fraction too close and she was saying in a loud voice “how did you do this morning?”, when I told her I’d lost half a pound, she declared in an even louder voice that she’d lost a pound & then for reasons known only to Karen she then put Lucy in charge of monitoring what I was going to eat for the coming week. I must have missed the point where Karen "the supermodel" was put in charge of my life, plus I have actually LOST weight this week!

 We bid Karen good bye and toddled off around the supermarket, I felt I regained some power when I noticed her reaching into the chilled cabinet for a large chocolate tart, which she put in her basket. Smug in the knowledge that I was buying strawberries, chicken and a magazine, I remarked "how cold it was" and made sure she knew that I knew what she'd done! I look forward to asking her loudly next week how she's done!

  At the checkout, the cheery cashier was trying to tempt everyone with the 49p large bar of chocolate they had on “special offer” the woman in front of us cracked and said she’d like one. When it got to me and I was asked the same question, I stood firm and declined the bargain chocolate and remarked “oohh I’ve just come from weight watchers, I’ll be on the naughty step next week if I eat that” I think I accidentally pressed the button to some flood gates, because all of a sudden I was hit by the once cheery cashier’s vitriol for the and I quote “multi million pound diet industry that take advantage of people” she didn’t stop there, she then proceeded to tell me that she’d once lost 2 stone on slimming world and it had cost her a thousand pounds. She didn’t like weight watchers because she didn’t see why she had to count alcohol on her points “it’s just a drink” she sneered “you don’t eat it” Finally she slapped her hands down on the check out and proclaimed “you are what you eat and life’s too short for counting calories”

  With that me and my bag of strawberries, chicken and magazines were dismissed presumably to ponder the error of our ways.

 This is an attitude I’ve come across a lot, particularly from people who obviously want to diet themselves, but for their own reasons aren’t in the place to do it. I’m not judging them for that because I genuinely believe a diet starts in your head, if you’re not mentally in the right place to do it then you wont stick it. What I resent though, are those people who try to sabotage what I’m doing, I call them the “one wont hurt you brigade” They notice you’re starting to look better and seem more content in yourself so they try and trip you up. Tell you they know someone who lost all their weight to promptly put it all back on again, so why bother in the first place? Or there’s those that are more proactive and turn up at your house with your favourite cake!

  I have bought many a bar of chocolate over the years, most times when I was buying them I’d think the cashier was thinking to herself “that’s the last thing you need to be eating fattie” Little did I know it was NOT buying chocolate that would cause me the most grief, still even though I ignored her 49p bargain, I do allow myself a flake - well they're only 2 points!