The Valentines Maintain.

So Happy Valentine’s Day dear reader. Today is the the day of love or if you’re like me, it’s Single Person’s Heightened Awareness Day. The day when couples everywhere celebrate their partnership and never ending love for each other. For me, it’s Thursday.

Thursday of course means a visit to The Scales of Doom. This week, my food optimising hasn’t been the best that it could have been so I ended up with a maintain. My first blip of the year. Six weeks in to the year and I’ve not lost anything.

Saturday was perhaps my undoing this week. A magnificently uninspiring game of rugby from our Welsh heroes combined with a pile of mates, beer, rum and an incredible burger from Cardiff’s Grazing Shed wasn’t perhaps the best way to start the week.

My hangover was unbelievable and I think that probably didn’t help me on Sunday. I managed to spend an hour or two with the Mum but I came back home and basically just slobbed in front of the telly.

I bought a load of meats from Muscle Foods online and I think perhaps that the meat that I bought wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. The chicken breasts are fantastic but perhaps the beef in the pack was perhaps not as lean. The sausages although delicious were perhaps more synable than others like Sainsbury’s reduced fat snaggs!

I thought that it might be a bit cheaper than spending £20 on food in Sainsbury’s every time I go there. I’m sure that there is good food on the website and I may use it again but I think that I’ll stick to Sainsbury’s meats.

I was also reminded that this week was week 52 on Slimming World. That’s my first year down and a year into my new way of life. This Saturday (16th) is the anniversary of redundancy from Tesco. A whole year that has changed me.

I still have an amount of anxiety and depression. That’s still there and that won’t really ever go away. I still feel rotten about elements of my life and of course being alone on a day like this doesn’t really help but there ya go. In one little year, 1/50th of my life I’ve done more than I ever did in the other 49.

I had never thought that on leaving my previous employer I’d still be gainfully employed or that I would have lost nearly eight stone in weight. It has been a heck of a struggle. There were moments when I considered giving up and just going back to the chocolate, crisps and doughnuts. However I don’t think that I am a quitter. I may be chucked out after a while but I’ll not give up.

Am I disappointed by the maintain this week? Yeah, I am. I’m heartened that it wasn’t a gain. That will have been disappointing and I suppose after 52 weeks on the plan it’s still a trend that points to more loss. I’ve got nothing this week that’s going to trip me up and I have forecast a loss for next week.

I’ve not done much walking since the end of January. I’ll perhaps look to get on and get out to do a couple of walks this weekend. Perhaps around Roath Park on Saturday if anyone wants to join me then give me a shout.

Weight21st 2.5lbs
Maintain0lb
Total107lb
7st 9lb

Five pounds in two weeks. You can do it Fatboy…

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