So, I have been absent for a few weeks - I have sat and recounted the weeks and it appears I am now at week 21. Weigh in this morning was a surprising 124.3kg which gives me a total loss of 19.4lbs - I need to get back on track!
But on the bright side, any weight loss is good weight loss and I have managed to keep this off. My lowest weight so far this year is 123.6kg so I appear to be maintaining rather than gaining which I have never done before when I have lost some weight and then wandered off from the diet plan.
Christmas and New Year are always bad times for weight loss and good times for weight gain but we have planned our meals and should not be eating to excess - pate and crumpets for breakfast, short ribs for lunch with usual roast potatoes and veg and then the boys have Christmas pudding and I shall have some fruit (I don't like Christmas pudding)
I need to cut down my hours at work - at the moment I am working 6 days a week which works out as at least an extra 23 hours per week which leaves me no time for myself. How my new line manager thinks I am going to be able to achieve my workload in the usual working week will be interesting but on the bright side if I do walk out of work at 4pm then I can be home and preparing the evening meals (hubby does the majority of the cooking and tends to be a feeder) and even get a walk around the block sorted each evening - I can but dream that I will that organised!
I don't usually set New Year's resolutions and I don't intend to do that this year either. What I need to set are new goals which can be achieved instead. Reading through the connect chat board on the Weight Watcher's website shows me that my amount of weight loss is perfectly achievable but it takes determination and effort - I start out with them both but they seem to jump ship fairly early on!
My life needs to be better organised, my health needs to improve to allow me to live long enough to see grandchildren (way to young to be a grandmother yet), I need to make time for me - these are my new life goals.
I now need to work towards them - I seem to be on repeat but I know what I need to do, I just need to maintain the determination and effort.
