Another
half pound gone, which means in the last couple of weeks I’ve lost a total of
5, so I’m happy with that and confident I can reach my 14 pound total by my one
year Weight watchers anniversary. Lucy lost 2 and for her first weigh in Laura
also lost 2, so we did lots of high fives and
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| Laura, Me, Lucy |
I think going to a slimming club with your
friends makes it easier, for lots of reasons
1) You’re not going to let them down
by not turning up.
2) You probably all go out socialising
so it makes it easier to stay on track (unless you’re all having a bad day,
then it could go really wrong!)
The first
time I did weight watchers I went with my Mum and I got to my goal weight and
Mum lost about 4 stones and it helped having her doing too, particularly as, at
that time, I was living at home and Mum was doing all the cooking. She would
always say what points were in dishes and it made it easy to plan what I was
going to eat as I knew what points I had to play with.
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| Me on the left at goal weight, Lucy on the right. |
As my weight started to creep up, I tried various diets, the Dukan Diet (I lost 4 pounds and developed an
irrational hatred of cottage cheese) The Cornflake diet (I lost 3 pounds &
developed an irrational hatred of maize based products) and a bootcamp regime
(where I developed an irrational hatred of personal trainers and men who shouted stuff like "come on you're not running fast enough" or "give me 10 more") I’d also been to
Weight Watchers on my own, but I’d never stay for meetings and found it hard to
stick to when I was around normal people of a healthy weight who could eat what
they wanted, so I gave up!
This time going with Lucy has made a
difference, because I automatically have a support system there. My Dad is also
following the diet, but he’s doing it online. My Dad is a good cook and as
my office is based at his house, it means that for lunch he cooks me various
low point delights (although neither of us were keen on the beetroot soup!)
Now
Laura has joined the Slinky gang, that means that when we head off on one of
our adventures we can all try and help each other stay in our points. (I say
adventures, because when me, Lucy and Laura go out, it’s never really a normal
night out! Throughout our friendship we have ended up stuck in a caravan in
Wales the weekend Princess Diana died, met a man in a pub who tried to chat us
up as he swigged from a bottle of wine and set off on a walk round a park only
to get lost and end up walking 10 miles!)
Where it gets hard, is when you’re around
friends who aren’t on a diet or who have never had a weight problem. We went to
a Macmillan coffee morning over the weekend, which was my worst nightmare! Sat
in an enclosed space surrounded by cakes, I knew this was going to be a massive
test of my willpower. I decided the best thing for me to do was to have one
slice of cake and move as far away from the table as possible, Lucy and I also
decided that the afternoon would be spent taking Cyril on a long dogwalk. My
plan worked well, I had one slice of date and walnut loaf (which I counted) and
sat chatting to the other ladies there and avoided looking in the general
direction of the cakes. There were a few incidents of “go on have another
slice, one wont hurt you”, but I stayed strong, because I thought it will hurt
me if I get on the scales on Tuesday and I haven’t lost anything!
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| Beautiful coffee morning cakes or torture as I like to call it! |
I think if you’re thinking of going on a
diet, then try and find someone to do it with you, or if you think it might
offend a friend if you say “hey fancy coming to fat club with me?” Then you’re
more than welcome to like my Facebook page or follow us on Twitter @slinkybytuesday I’m not saying I have all the answers,
because I don’t, but you’re welcome to join in my journey and see if it offers
you any support!
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