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Slimming World Update Week 27

22/01/2014 by MrsSavageAngel Leave a Comment

Hello there my lovelies.

Hows your week been? Mine’s been OK, nothing amazing, nothing awful – one of those weeks.

Sometimes it’s those kind of weeks which can be the most challenging from a food perspective. I know one of my worst habits (from a weight loss perspective 😉 ) was emotional eating – particularly boredom eating. I say “was” with some bravado, because although I want to think it’s a habit I’ve binned, it still takes plenty of hard work to keep it in check. Its not natural to me yet. But it will be. Anyway back to the point – yes boredom eating. So yeah it can be hard to keep the mind from wandering to the cupboards, when there’s little else going on. But if that’s what I’ve found myself doing this week, then I’ve headed to the fruit basket. Yes I’ve eaten a lot of bananas and I’ve developed something of an unhealthy disregard for all apples other than Jazz (they are just THE best apples I’ve found!), but it allowed me to munch without going berserk on the old syns – even when I’ve REALLY wanted too.

And it must have worked as I lost the 1.5lb I wanted this week. That takes me to a total of 4 Stone 4lb. Which my friends is 60lb. Sounds good huh?! But then this is about so much more than numbers. Two things have happened this week to hit home just how I’m doing, in a way a number could maybe never do. These are:

1) I got a new pair of jeans

2) I nearly spilt my coffee in my lap – several times

Both pretty innocuous sounding I grant you. Boring even. But they weren’t to me. The jeans I bought were smaller than I’ve ever bought in my adult life. Size 18. Sounds enormous to some, but to me they are small, petite, wee even! They are also skinny fit (with some stretch, but come on give a girl a break) and they look and make me feel amazing. I may have to get more 😉 . Then there’s the coffee thing. You know how you don’t realise you do something til you don’t/can’t do it anymore? Well I’ve realised I used to rest my coffee cup on my protruding stomach – mmm nice image. But I’ve gone to do that several times in the past week and nearly dropped my cup in my lap. There’s no protruding stomach there anymore! I’m not saying I’ve suddenly developed a six pack and everything’s flat and svelte like, but there’s not enough to rest a coffee cup on anymore and to me that’s as good a sign as any that things are totally on the right track. 🙂

Anyway the coming week has all sorts of excitement planned, including a visit from Oscar’s Grandma and Great Aunt Gillian. We’re off out for lunch on Saturday, but I’ve already checked ahead and know that there are choices I can have without going overboard. No doubt I’ll want to have a few vinos on Saturday night too 🙂 . I’m so looking forward to it! But I do still want to reach 4.5 stone in the next two weigh ins so I’m still going for a loss of a minimum of 1.5lb this week.

Enjoy your weeks people

Big loves

xxxxx

Slimming World Update Week 26

15/01/2014 by MrsSavageAngel Leave a Comment

Hello!

Well as I’m writing this on a Wednesday you can probably guess that I went back to my old group, Liphook on a Tuesday, last night. One of my Haslemere friends has decided to stay at Liphook and was able to take me which was fab (Thank you Sarah!). I wanted to go back, even if it was just to see that what I was remembering about the meetings was right or not.

It was right (I knew it was 😉 ). People seemed genuinely pleased to see me. It was like (and this is going to sound sooo corny) but it was like coming home. Catching up on everyone’s news, hearing about people’s successes. Several people came up to me to tell me how lovely I looked in the photo in this post (which was so sweet of them). One lady, who is doing incredibly well herself in the three months she’s been with the group, took me aside and told me how amazing the photo was and how inspiring the look of pride on my face was! She had tears in her eyes! I was overwhelmed. I felt like I was blushing all evening.

When it came to weigh in, it was so lovely to see Carol’s smiley face as she told me I’d lost 4lb. That puts to bed the 1.5lb I still had to lose from Christmas and then some. Total loss now is 4 Stone 2.5lb (58.5lb). When Zoe read out my loss, I swear the group cheered! And I carried on blushing as I was given Slimmer of the Week.

Any of you who’ve known me for a while will know I have been plus size all my adult life. I lost some weight back in 2005/2006 and I kept a tracker of this loss. Last night I weighed in at less than I ever did on any of these trackers. Therefore I think I can safely say I am the lightest I’ve ever (knowingly) been in my adult life. When I told the group this, Zoe asked how it made me feel. I couldn’t find the words, I just grinned.

My body may be getting smaller but my smiles are getting so much bigger!!!!!!!!

So, to business. I am so relieved this group thing is sorted and that I am fully focused once more. The next award is 4.5 Stone. I have 4.5lb to lose to get it. I’d like to do that over the next three weeks. So target for next week is 1.5lb please.

Have a great week!

Big loves

xxx

Slimming World Update Week 25

10/01/2014 by MrsSavageAngel Leave a Comment

Well hello there!

What a weeks it’s been. I am British and therefore obsessed with the weather – and this weeks weather has been atrocious! Torrential downpours have lead to a leaky roof, fence panels lying obliterated on the lawn, oh and the boiler decided to pack up on Sunday – what joy! And what an expensive start to the year! Fortunately the rain stopped in time for me to walk to my meeting, in Haslemere, last night. I hate to think how much ‘water in your hair’ weighs 😉 !

So yes I went to Haslemere group again last night. Earlier in the week I had decided to go back to Liphook and my friend had offered to take me. However on the day she told me she could only go for the weigh in and not stay for the meeting – which is fair enough, but kind of defeated the purpose of my going back to the old group. I wanted to stay for the Image Thearapy – I am in no doubt that its is this thats helped me come so far already – so I decided to go to Haslemere again.

I lost 1lb this week – not quite the 2.5lb I had been hoping for , but then if I am honest with myself I havent really been feeling it this week. I think the whole hoo haa with the groups and the not being back into our routine yet (toddler groups all start again next week) has left me without some of last years focus. However, a pound off is a pound off. It’s absolutely going in the right direction and I’m happy with that.

The Haslmere group is enormous compared to Liphook and the collective total for last nights losses was 109lb! Everyone had such amazing first weeks and it was heartening to hear. When it came to my “1lb off” it sounded a little pathetic next to the 4, 5, 7, 12 (yes someone lost 12lb in one week!) lb of the first weekers. Then Sara read out my total loss and a collective “wow” went round the room. Suddently 1lb seemed so much more! That made me smile.

A friend of mine said part of my journey was to inspire others and I am totally down with that idea. But even after last night, I’m still not sure with which group my journey lies. Maybe it’s both?

We’ll see.

Anyway for the coming week, I want to focus much more on being honest with myself about what I’m eating and will be keeping a food diary again, even if just for a week, to help me achive that. My goal for this week is to lose 1.5lb. This will bring my total loss back to 4 Stone. I think thats a realistic target for the week.

Have a great week

xxx

Slimming World Update Week 24

03/01/2014 by MrsSavageAngel Leave a Comment

Happy New Year!

So if you’ve read this post, you’ll know I had a fab Christmas and New Year and I hope you did too.

Last night I had my first weigh in for 2014. I’ve been attending a group in Liphook, but last year we found out that there was a group opening up, on 2nd Jan, in Haslemere. I could walk to it in 10 minutes. I wouldn’t have to rely on others for lifts and if Slimming World has taught me one thing, it’s to take control of your own journey. So last night I had my first weigh in at my new group. As my mum said later it probably wasnt the best week to change groups.

I gained 2.5lb in 10 days.

It doesn’t sound too much and I am relieved it wasn’t more, but it was my first significant gain in six months and I really needed the support of my group to talk it over, and last nights group didn’t give me that. It was primarily full of new members at the beginning of their journey, so the meeting only dealt with how SW works. We did no Image Therapy at all. I kicked myself later for not realising this would be the case.

So it’s made me think. Should I put the convenient location of one group over the usefulness and the supportiveness of another? I know the Haslemere group will bed in and become just as supportive as any other and it is only a 10 minute walk away, whereas Liphook is a good 15 minute drive (and I don’t drive!). But I missed my group last night.

Its left me with a quandary I didn’t expect and I one I will have to give serious consideration over the next week.

Which brings me to the strategy for the coming week. I am 100% back on form now and my first goal is to lose the weight I have gained. I would like to do this by next week’s weigh in. But where that will be I honestly can’t tell you at the moment and that’s bothering me.

Hmm decisions need to be made.

Anyway I got home and did a bit of my own image therapy. Ben and I discussed how important it was for me not to forget how far I had come, despite my gain this week. This photo is helping with that. The left hand picture was taken on the first day I could get my jeans back on – 13th Sept 2013. The right hand one was taken in the changing room at Fat Face on 31st December 2013. I didn’t buy the dress as it was still a bit tight on the bum, but I like the difference I can see in my shape. It also shows the difference a good bra can make!!! Oh and the dress on the right is 3 sizes smaller that the one on the left. Another goal is to conquer FatFace this year – I do like their stuff!

Have a great week xxx

Slimming World Update Week 23

24/12/2013 by MrsSavageAngel Leave a Comment

So as promised in my previous post here is my update, a day early.

This past week has been incredibly challenging. I feel like I have been surrounded by images of festive indulgence for weeks now, but this week it has really started to get to me. I think it’s because all the groups we go too have broken up for Christmas, which really makes it feel like we’re on holiday. I have had to remind myself constantly that its not actually Christmas yet!

So OK this past week hasn’t always seen the wisest food choices, although I have tried to keep to planned meals. I know my will power has been tested to its absolute limits in the past few days, which is why I am so glad I hadn’t bought a tin of chocolate biscuits, like I normally do at Christmas. I’m pretty sure one of those bad boys would have been gone in one sitting on Sunday if I had!

For various reasons it worked out better for me to go to the weigh in on Monday, rather than my usual group on Tuesday. It was at a different venue (same consultant, different group) but I was desperate to get weighed right before Christmas. Partly to know how I’m doing, partly so I know exactly how I do over the Christmas week and partly so I could tell you, and my family when I visit them in Devon, exactly how much I have lost so far.

And that figure is exactly 4 Stone (56lb).

Yep this week I lost the 1lb I asked for and reached my 4 stone award. It feels like the best Christmas present I could have given myself. I’m so proud and seeing Ben’s face when I told him was priceless.

So what will the coming week bring? Well, I still intend to eat what I want to on Christmas Day. We went and bought small pieces of our favourite cheeses on Saturday from the very knowledgeable cheese counter at Secretts Farm Shop in Milford and I am really looking forward to savouring every mouthful. We have our one box of beautiful chocolates and our Baileys and bottle of Verve. I can’t wait!

But this Christmas will be different for me. I will not eat til I ache. I will not eat things I don’t really want or like, just because they’re there. And I will not eat food others want to give me if I do not want it myself. I’m just not prepared to deal with the kind of fall out a week of binging will bring.

But a day of small indulgences, well that I can cope with 😉 .

Before I go, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has read my blog and given me such amazing feedback over the past 6 months. I cannot explain how much it’s meant to me and my journey and I look to pay that positivity and kindness forward wherever I can. You are all so amazing. Thank you.

I hope you all have the Christmases you want and choose for yourselves. Mine will be spent with the family and friends I love wearing clothes that are already three sizes smaller than when I started this journey. I feel so very lucky and I can’t wait to see what I can achieve in 2014.

I look forward to updating you in the New Year, but for now I’ll say a massive

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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