WEEK 3 - YOU CAN'T FAIL IF YOU NEVER GIVE UP!
Again, I just want to start by thanking everyone that is supporting my journey. Your comments, compliments, encouragement, advice and well wishes really inspire and motivate me to carry on and try harder.
Now on to week 3. Surprising, successful, challenging and confusing lol but finally approaching the end of the week, I'm starting to feel more organised and in control. Non- scale victory 1!
The week started how week 2 ended, disheartened and discouraged. Have you ever just thought that if I can't get my eating habits right then I should just stop eating? I don't know if it's just me but when I have a difficult time, I decide that at least if I starve myself then I have to lose weight and I won't have the stress of trying to plan and buy and organise and cook and store, I just won't eat. Problem solved!
Obviously that wasn't sustainable and not a great idea with the mindset I was in. Luckily I pulled out of that funk on Wednesday and for the third week, started all over again lol.
So Wednesday came and I'm feeling more positive, back on the lemon water and the recipe searches (I swear this lifestyle change is like having a second job with all the effort it takes!) And another big shop, but lesson learned, I have bought frozen fruit – not fresh – and I have separated everything into servings and frozen all the excess. Non- scale victory 2!
Thursday, an unexpected shift change left me with nothing prepared for dinner. I visited my sister and kids who were having chip shop dinner and invited me to join them. I love chip shop food, it's my downfall and so against my better judgment, I conceded, having not eaten it since the start of my journey and having starved for 2 days I thought ‘why not?, treat yourself!’ I've never regretted a decision so much.
Suffering from IBS, sudden changes in diet have a bad affect and so I spent all day Friday in bed, in pain. I won't be doing that again in a hurry!
On a plus note, on Thursday evening, I noticed that I was 0.5 miles short of my distance goal on my Fitbit. In a spontaneous burst of motivation and energy, I grabbed the kids and took a nice evening, autumnal stroll and photo shoot just so that I could reach it. On returning home and seeing that I only had 4 flights of stairs to complete all my goals, so I went for it. My first ever green screen! Non- scale victory 3!
Saturday went fine and with my new found motivation, I trawled the internet for PTs and/or programmes to help progress my journey. I looked at Noom, One Plan, the Body Coach and the James Smith Academy but i don't trust my instincts when it comes to money and life- changing promises lol so if any of you have any advice, I'll be glad to have it.
Today (Sunday 5th) was spent planning, prepping and cooking for the next few days (non- scale victory 4!) So even coming up to weighing time, I was feeling a lot more positive and confident in what I was doing and how I was doing it. I was so happy with my non- scale victories that whatever the outcome, I was pleased with what I gained over the week and was in a good place to accept whatever the numbers were. Afterall, they're not everything, and after such a dodgy week I expected the worst.
Amazement and elation were the feelings I experienced at the end result. I've lost 7lbs this week, taking me over the first stone bracket! 🏆 I had to weigh myself 3 times before I'd actually believe it! There was dancing, whooping, self hi-fiving and a mental preparation of my acceptance speech for the award I'm granting myself 😜😂.
But as proud as I am, I know that I can't do this alone, that I need the support and encouragement I get and the advice and motivation from friends, family and people also struggling with their own journeys because experience is more useful than well-meant misinformation.
So again thank you to everyone for sharing my journey, please continue helping me in whichever way you can, it's needed and appreciated.
Week 4 here I come, we got this!
Now on to week 3. Surprising, successful, challenging and confusing lol but finally approaching the end of the week, I'm starting to feel more organised and in control. Non- scale victory 1!
The week started how week 2 ended, disheartened and discouraged. Have you ever just thought that if I can't get my eating habits right then I should just stop eating? I don't know if it's just me but when I have a difficult time, I decide that at least if I starve myself then I have to lose weight and I won't have the stress of trying to plan and buy and organise and cook and store, I just won't eat. Problem solved!
Obviously that wasn't sustainable and not a great idea with the mindset I was in. Luckily I pulled out of that funk on Wednesday and for the third week, started all over again lol.
So Wednesday came and I'm feeling more positive, back on the lemon water and the recipe searches (I swear this lifestyle change is like having a second job with all the effort it takes!) And another big shop, but lesson learned, I have bought frozen fruit – not fresh – and I have separated everything into servings and frozen all the excess. Non- scale victory 2!
Thursday, an unexpected shift change left me with nothing prepared for dinner. I visited my sister and kids who were having chip shop dinner and invited me to join them. I love chip shop food, it's my downfall and so against my better judgment, I conceded, having not eaten it since the start of my journey and having starved for 2 days I thought ‘why not?, treat yourself!’ I've never regretted a decision so much.
Suffering from IBS, sudden changes in diet have a bad affect and so I spent all day Friday in bed, in pain. I won't be doing that again in a hurry!
On a plus note, on Thursday evening, I noticed that I was 0.5 miles short of my distance goal on my Fitbit. In a spontaneous burst of motivation and energy, I grabbed the kids and took a nice evening, autumnal stroll and photo shoot just so that I could reach it. On returning home and seeing that I only had 4 flights of stairs to complete all my goals, so I went for it. My first ever green screen! Non- scale victory 3!
Saturday went fine and with my new found motivation, I trawled the internet for PTs and/or programmes to help progress my journey. I looked at Noom, One Plan, the Body Coach and the James Smith Academy but i don't trust my instincts when it comes to money and life- changing promises lol so if any of you have any advice, I'll be glad to have it.
Today (Sunday 5th) was spent planning, prepping and cooking for the next few days (non- scale victory 4!) So even coming up to weighing time, I was feeling a lot more positive and confident in what I was doing and how I was doing it. I was so happy with my non- scale victories that whatever the outcome, I was pleased with what I gained over the week and was in a good place to accept whatever the numbers were. Afterall, they're not everything, and after such a dodgy week I expected the worst.
Amazement and elation were the feelings I experienced at the end result. I've lost 7lbs this week, taking me over the first stone bracket! 🏆 I had to weigh myself 3 times before I'd actually believe it! There was dancing, whooping, self hi-fiving and a mental preparation of my acceptance speech for the award I'm granting myself 😜😂.
But as proud as I am, I know that I can't do this alone, that I need the support and encouragement I get and the advice and motivation from friends, family and people also struggling with their own journeys because experience is more useful than well-meant misinformation.
So again thank you to everyone for sharing my journey, please continue helping me in whichever way you can, it's needed and appreciated.
Week 4 here I come, we got this!
Oh, well done, Michelle!!
ReplyDeleteLove the little victories awarded along the way - you ROCK! :)
Thankyou! I'm starting to realise that the scales aren't everything! 😊
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