Before I go any further with the blogs, I have to admit something. I am on Weight Watchers. Now many people would say that I don't really need to be at WW and to a point I would agree. But since I started work at my current job which was 2 years ago, I have put on a stone. A whole 14 pounds. It doesn't sound a lot when it's in pounds but it feels a lot when your trying to squeeze in the same jeans as before.
The job I have is an office job and never having had one of these before, it came as a bit of a shock. I'd had retail jobs in the past where I was on my feet all day and ate exactly the same as I have done in the office job. The lack of exercise and the moving around in the day had caused the weight to pile on.
Joining WW wasn't a decision I took lightly. I tried to eat healthier and go the gym and went swimming and climbed the 6 flights of stairs to my office every day which is no mean feat let me tell you. But nothing was happening. My mum (who has coincidentally lost 4 stone at WW), said I needed to join WW to have the fear of someone actually weighing me each week. They expect me to lose weight on the plan and if you put on weight, you feel like a bit of a disappointment.
I ended up going along and in a couple of months, I'd lost half a stone. It had been gradual (which apparantly is the best way to lose it, as it stays off longer) but it felt amazing. I felt like I wanted to prance around naked in a field full of sunflowers, I didn't but I felt so good, I just didn't want to wear any clothes!
Since then, it has been Christmas. Major downfall. In the two or three months it had taken me to lose the weight, it had been piled back on in the space of the two week xmas break. Granted, I did take a "Oh well it's Christmas" approach to the endless chocolates, cupcakes and buffet style food pushed into my face. I felt very deflated when they told me at the first meeting back that I was right back at my starting weight, not a pound under or over, exactly what I was when I started.
My first proper week back on the WW was last week and I lost 2lb which was a miracle as I hadn't been to the gym or done any exercise but I'd obviously eaten the right foods. Tonight I'm going to join the gym properly. I'm very lucky actually because as a Birmingham resident, I get free gym, fitness classes and swimming until the end of March this year which is fab. I will definately be taking advantage of this in a bid to get back to that feeling of frolicking naked in a field.
Wish me luck! Next weigh in is tomorrow at 6.15pm!!
hello! good luck with your weight plan, me and my coursemate are doing slimming world and have a slimming bog to keep us on track, its such a pain in the bum to shift the christmas podge!
ReplyDeleteim interested in the free gym/swimming thing because you're a resident of birmingham...how does that work?
does it apply to leamington spa? and will it matter that i have student residential status?
i want free gyms and swimming!
You DO NOT need to loose weight, you look good just as you are! Go to the gym and have some free swim sessions to keep fit and eat what you like! Silly Billy!
ReplyDeleteHi! Thanks, I've been following your slimming blog and it makes for a very interesting read actually! You eat really really healthy, even I'm not that good! Are you a veggie? I tend to eat a lot of chicken which is good, protein wise and lean bacon is pretty good too.
ReplyDeleteThe free gym/swim is only if you have a Birmingham postcode and pay council tax to Birmingham city council. It doesn't apply in Leam (I've lived in Leam the whole of my life!) but if you want somewhere cheap ish to go, try Newbold Comyn, did a few exercises classes there and they're pretty fun :-)
haha, its a slimming blog/sarahs neuroses outlet i think ;)
ReplyDeleteim not a veggie, i just often genuinely prefer the taste of vegetable dishes than meat ones, and my mum is a vegetarian, so pretty much all the meals iv picked up over my years at home have been veggie, so its just easier to replicate those, rather than trying to cook meat well on our rather crappy student house ancient cooker! if im eating out though, i will always, always order meat, as a change!
ah bummer, id have loved free exercise lol. thanks for the recommendation, il try that out, at the moment i go to our gym on campus and its SO expensive considering they know we are all living off overdrafts! x