About two weeks ago now, I joined Slimming World and I promised that I would do a weekly update on my progress. Well after not sticking to the plan and knowing I was going to be working on my day off, the excuses came in bag full's for reasons why I hadn’t been able to follow the plan and how hard it was going to be to get to my weekly class.
I am the type of person who often lives in the moment when it comes to diets/healthy eating and often uses the phrase ‘I will start tomorrow’. So with that being said I sat and thought about my goals in life regarding my weight and lifestyle and knowing I had committed to a twelve week plan I knew that I had to really think about what I was doing.
I had a look on the Slimming World website to look for an alternative class that Emily (my consultant) would be holding. I found that there was one on the Tuesday evening, so all day I was thinking should I or shouldn’t I go, maybes I could miss this weeks weigh in, be good and then next week I would be fine. In my head that seemed like the best option, I wouldn’t show a gain in my first week and I wouldn’t have to own responsibility for my actions.
Then I thought, if I was to do that what chance have I actually got of waking up the next day and thinking ‘today is the day!’ very little seeing as a whole week had gone by and I hadn’t started already. So I decided to go to the Tuesday evening class but I made an agreement that I had to go but I wouldn’t stay for ‘Image Therapy’ which is where you talk about your week, ideas for recipes, new products on the market etc.
So I walked in the room nervously, feeling ashamed that I hadn’t followed the plan on my first week, waiting in line to get weighed Emily came over with a huge smile, ‘Well how have you done?’ she said, what do I say I thought, so I just said the truth, that I hadn’t followed the plan but I was determined that Slimming World is the plan for me.
Emily's response? ‘It doesn’t matter what has gone on in the past week, what matters is that you have came today, I am proud of you!’. How could anyone be proud of me? I had failed, then I thought actually failing would have been not going to a class that week and making excuses for reasons that I couldn’t do or follow the plan. So I wouldn’t go as far as saying that I was ‘proud’ of myself but I was pleased with the decision I had made.
Once I left the class that evening, something was different about my attitude towards food, I was determined that I was going to start the plan and not make any excuses, so again this week I was working on my day off so I chose to go to the Tuesday evening class and I was so pleased that I did, I lost 5lbs! Now I know that might not seem like a lot considering my size, but at this point in time any loss is great.
I didn’t want to do a post last week to let you know that I wasn’t following the plan and had a gain as readers who have never tried Sliming World might have been put of thinking about joining etc and I knew that my gain was solely down to myself!
So with a good weight loss this week I am determined to get my half stone award next week, so if you’ve done the maths that will mean I need at least a 2lb loss next week which I think is very achievable hoping things all go well.
So what I thought might be nice, was to allow one of my readers a chance to win a Slimming World magazine and I also bought another copy of this years Christmas recipe book too to go with the magazine, hopefully this will give either an existing Slimming World member a few ideas for the Christmas season or give someone who is thinking about joining a bit of a head start.
Now Slimming World are not sponsoring me or providing the giveaway, I have put this together myself just because I know how hard it can be to embark on a weight loss journey and would like to offer someone who maybes wouldn’t normally purchase these books a chance to try them.
All you have to do to enter is follow me on twitter @littlemisspluss, also follow @slimmingworld and give this post a thumbs up! You have up until November 28th to enter. Good luck!
Thanks for reading
Tracy xx
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