I’ve been thinking a lot about rewards.
When I was fat and eating like a fat girl, whenever I was happy or something really good happened, I “rewarded” myself with food. I did the exact same thing when I was on diets like weight watchers - when I had a good loss that week I’d use all my points one day to eat junk food.
It’s not healthy and it’s a cycle I have to break, so one way I’ve thought of doing this is rewarding myself with non-food products for each pound and each stone loss.
For each pound lost I’m saving £1 in a piggybank. By the time I’ve lost all the weight I want to lose I should have £90. That’s reward one in the bag!
Then there’s a reward for each stone loss - they start out small and get progressively larger. I’m still working a few out, so any suggestions would be welcome!
Stone 1 (hit in August) - Bought a new outfit.
Stone 2 (will hit in September) - Preordered collector’s edition Batman: Arkham City video game.
Stone 3 - Buy an e-book reader, most likely a Kindle.
Stone 4 - Get the tattoo on my wrist tattooed over and have the original redone on my other wrist.
Stone 5 - Get upper ears and lip pierced.
Stone 6(.5) - Retro make-over from Miss Dixiebelle, Edinburgh and photoshoot.
Got my WI tomorrow. I'm sure I've lost at least a whole 3lbs this week. Feeling even less bloated and my size 16 jeans have a little more space in them than last week. Fingers crossed!