I’ve just arrived back from Newcastle having spent the weekend on one of my best friend’s hen do’s. The wedding is in 2 weeks’ time and I’m one of the 3 bridesmaids. Having had plenty to eat and drink over the past 4 days, I am seriously feeling it. I can’t remember the last time I felt this bloated and overweight.
I decided that today (for some reason) would be a good day to weigh myself…I wish I hadn’t. The last time I weighed myself I was 11stones 5lbs – yes I still use the ‘old school’ weight system. Today when I weighed myself, I was a seriously depressing 12stones 2lbs. That’s an 11lbs weight gain in a month?!
This situation is far from ok. A year ago (almost to the day) I was following the Weight Watchers diet plan and lost, in total, 22lbs. I weighed 10stones 9lbs and had never felt so good about my body. I was going to the gym 4 times a week and mixing cardio and weight training with yoga and Pilates, I felt proud of my body and proud of what I had achieved. However, I decided upon a change of career in August last year, which meant going back to university to retrain for 1 year. I didn’t have the money to keep going to the gym, I didn’t have the money to keep attending Weight Watchers meetings and as I wasn’t yet at goal weight meetings weren’t yet free. As a result Weight Watchers and the gym were out of my life and a downward spiral back onto the path of ‘fatness’ followed. I was confident at the time I could stick to the Weight Watchers plan on my own but without the commitment or accountability of having to visit the Weight Watchers scales every week, my weight slowly crept up and up and up.
Earlier today, when looking through the hen party photographs I came to realise enough was enough. Out of a group of 10 girls I was the biggest, I looked it and I felt it and so I have decided to do something about it.
Tomorrow I will begin the Slim Fast diet and before you even go there, I know exactly what you’re going to say! The Slim Fast diet is a quick fix, impossible to follow long term, unhealthy diet and yes you might be right, but desperate times call for desperate measures. I have to fit into my bridesmaid dress in 2 weeks and quite frankly I’m feeling large, fat, unhealthy and totally unattractive. This does not bode well when having to follow your petite best friend down the aisle along with the other size 10 and size 8 bridesmaids and all in a couple of weeks.
I have decided to keep a record of my Slim Fast diet and I’m hoping this will become my accountability, just like the Thursday night Weight Watchers session with the scales used to be. I don’t plan to stay on the Slim Fast diet for more than a couple of weeks but I’m hoping I can stick to the plan, lose weight and (fingers crossed) this will be my motivation to keep going. In total I’d like to lose 2 stones exactly, 10stones 2lbs is my goal weight, but will I get there? Who knows! I know I’ll try my best and my family have assured my they’ll do their best to keep me motivated. All I know is that the next 2 weeks of my life consist of Slim Fast diet shakes, Slim Fast meal replacements and Slim Fast snacks. Am I excited to be drinking my way to a slimmer body? No. Am I excited to be getting a slimmer body? You bet I am.
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