Hello! It’s another week down and we’re in the middle of October already. I’m no further forward in respect to the weight loss regime and I don’t think that tonight’s Slimming World adventure will bring any good news either.
I need to recap the last seven days. I’m not sure where that last seven days has gone to be fair. I’ve tried to keep a daily diary and have bought a little notepad to keep some notes and thoughts as I think of them but I’ve not been able to.
I can’t stick to things like that and that’s really, really stupid of me. I should be looking to do that often. My one once a week catch up with you all is really my diary but I should try and do a daily update.
Wednesday
This was my half day in work. I planned to go out and have a walk in the afternoon but that never materialised. I spent most of the afternoon trying to write up last week’s blog post. That took me ages to write. I should have just got my shoes on, got my coat on and headed out but for some reason I decided to stay in and write up the previous week.
Thursday
My office day today and it’s not really a good day for the plan. It never is. The guys always get a takeaway for lunch and there’s no shortage of snacks available. As it was my birthday, I bought loads of doughnuts for the team. We also went to the local Beefeater restaurant for lunch where I had a very tasty mixed grill. There was also a few snacks in the afternoon and perhaps a spare doughnut too. The rest of the day was just spent eating rubbish!
The weekend
Saturday was a fairly good day. I went to the Fleet Air Arm Museum near Yeovil. The museum is just down the road from the Haynes Motor Museum that I visited at the start of the week.
It took a good three hours to walk around the exhibits. Some classic aircraft were on display right from the start of Navy Aviation. One of the halls houses Concorde 002, the first British Concorde. It was quite a fantastic little look around at what was at the dawn of supersonic flight.
There was one hall that had been converted into like the runway on an aircraft carrier. You go inside and can almost believe that you’re on a 1970’s aircraft carrier!
On Sunday did very little again. I did go out for a quick walk just up and down to the M4 and back. Mandy came over for the evening. I cooked a roast chicken dinner, then we sat and caught up with First Dates. Back to work on Monday.
What am I thinking?
My food has been a bit of a problem this last week or so and I’ve not been sticking to plan. I’ve bought myself a little jotter to try and note down everything that I’m eating. My problem is that I just don’t feel motivated to stick to plan.
My countdown was up this week and so I need to buy the next 12 weeks in advance. This will take me up to Christmas and the New Year but I’m wondering whether I should knock Slimming World on the head until I get back into the mindset that I had back in 2018 when I wanted to change my life.
I don’t necessarily feel that I want to change my life at the moment. I just just want to just crack on with things and I suppose that I’m just not happy with the way things are at the moment.
I know that I’ve put on weight this week. I can feel it and that’s not good. It’s something that I’m going to have to look at over the next few months very carefully. Do I keep spending lots of money not to lose weight or do I spend that money and rigorously stick to the plan.
Winter is a very difficult time to lose weight. The nights are drawing in, it’s getting darker and the weather is starting to close in again. I don’t feel like I want to diet, I just want to hibernate, curl up in my chair, stuff my face and just do nothing.
I realise that what I want and what I need to do are two very different things. I need to realise the success that I’ve had in certain respects, the reduction in the size of my trousers, the not having to get an extending belt when I go on airplanes!
I was looking at the certificates that I get from Slimming World and the last one that I had at 2.5 stones was in May. Since then, in five months, I’ve lost nothing. I have 5lbs to go to the next stone and that really is so very depressing.
I’ve had a huge amount of things going on. Festivals, gigs, birthdays and general nights out. I could have driven to the events and I know I could have avoided the event or potentially done something else to cut down.
My friend Bethan has sent me ideas for places to go to go for a wander. A lovely reservoir again up around Usk / Pontypool. They have closed the longer walks for the winter but there are some shorter walks of about 1.5 miles. It would be worth the drive when the longer walks are open again. If I do eventually get there for a wander I’ll let you know and will take some photos for here.
The tale of the scale.
So I was not expecting good news this evening and to be honest, I wasn’t disappointed.
1.5lbs on this week so again, it’s bouncing around. I have five pounds to go to the next stone and it’s really taking forever.
I’m not knuckling down to get this loss. It’s really taking such a long time and my heart really isn’t in it.
I did buy the next 12 weeks in advance and my hope is that I can get to the next stone by Christmas. I’d love more but I’m not hopeful that I’ll be successful in that time.
Next time.
So, I really have no idea what the best way is to tackle the next week.
Walking is a must but the weather isn’t looking very good for the next few days. Thursday seems to be the better day so perhaps a wander is in order in the evening. I do need to go a bit further afield so perhaps the Roath Park loop needs to be attempted again.
I’ve been given some SOS logs to complete this week, so that I can detail the food that I’m scoffing. I’ll also use the notepad to keep a daily note of where my head is in all of this!
I’ll try to get out for some walks. It’s not looking great weatherwise today though.
Wish me luck for a better week.
