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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Severe talking to required - aka give myself an uppercut

Well I lost 400g this week - OK it's a loss but it's not what it could/should of been and even although I've been on holidays I just know inside myself that I'm arsing around - I weigh exactly the same as I did four weeks ago! I'm soo good weekdays at work - but lately I come home and I'm tired and I don't always walk then I decide a glass of wine on the deck with Bloss would be nice .. and it is but then I have another while I'm cooking tea, then of course one with tea and well ... might as well finish the bottle. Then comes the weekend - seem to be socialising a lot and of course I feel I deserve to let up on the weekend. Well that's fine but not if I'm letting up all week too! Positives are that I'm still doing a fair job of tracking daily. Ok - this is part two of this post - the weekend has come and gone and I'm not feeling good about weighing tomorrow and neither wonder! Had a real weekend of socialising - that dreaded alcohol again - it's bad enough but then the normal sense of restraint disappears so I have a couple of chocolates with coffee - don't normally have chocs in the house but our friends brought some nice little ones when they came for dinner and it's other things like a handful of pistachios or almonds with a glass of wine - you know the kind of thing. So last night I'm wide awake in the middle of the night - don't have hot flushes but do get the night sweats and if I'm honest - these are much more likely to occur after having a few drinks. Anyway I'm lying there telling myself what a dope I am - and that it's high time I stopped going two steps forward and one back. So then I think - it's time to get a bit of real structure into this or I'll be attending a friend's wedding in Noosa in May (one of my sort of milestones along the way) having not lost any weight. So then I thought - Ok what's the plan and what are the realistic steps. Right... it's that Lent time of year when people decide to go without things. So my promise to myself is - alcohol free until at least Easter weekend, try and walk at least four days out of seven and religiously track, the last bit is the easiest, the first two will require considerable effort. One month - 31 days following the above strategy and the challenge is to weigh at least 4 kgs less than tomorrow's weigh in.

1 comment:

Suzy said...

Good luck with your Lent plan!

Your deck looks great! Ours is still a day or so away from being finished.

Reading your blog you certainly can relate to a lot of the things that have been going on with me too!