Hi guys!
I've been away for a while now because I've been MEGA busy with work, then when I get in i'm so tired and often go to bed! I want to start finding a bit more time to use this site though as you all really help me stay on track!
Sooo.. I faced the scale last week and put on 4lb
booooooo. I guess 3 weeks of crap and 4 lb is ok... but I am determined to get this all off!! I have been back to calorie counting and exercise since last week and i'm weighing tomorrow morning. I'm hoping for a nice loss
I have decided to quit SW. It's for various reasons, but not one of them is because i'm giving up. I'm not giving up AT ALL. I'm still gyming it and calorie counting and weight loss is a major thing to me at this point in my life. The main reasons why i'm quitting are:
1. I feel like I know the diet completely and it had aided my life/eating/cooking so much, but I don't enjoy the groups and I always leave straight after being weighed. I know I can just use the knowledge of SW at home without going to the group!
2. Money. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh money. That is on my mind 24/7 atm because this is the year that me and my partner are sorting out all of our finances. We're cutting back on EVERYTHING so that by the end of the year we can start pumping money into savings for bigger things (like a mortgage or wedding!). He is cutting back and putting every last penny into sorting our finances out that I really can't justify paying £20 (plus end up buying hifi bars and magazines and cooking books..) a month on SW when I also pay £15 gym membership. £20 doesn't seem like a lot but over a year thats £240 that i could put away for a holiday or put into debt or anything! I'm not prepared to give up the gym because thats actually helping me, so I have decided to give up SW. Before I was so focused on saving, I was already feeling like "i'm paying £20 a month to be told what i weigh????" I know it's more than that with the group and being weighed infront of someone and having it recorded is completely different.. so me and the girls at work who also do SW or are dieting have decided to hold our own weigh in group on thurs mornings at work. We are not going to disclose our weights to eachother but only whether we have gained or lost, and make a note of it. I actually think that doing it infront of people i know will give me more pressure to lose weight than at SW!! I felt it last week when I stepped on and gained 4lb, i was pretty embarrassed! (in a good way.. a way that promotes motivation!)
3. I actually HATE being weighed in the evenings. I don't like how it can be swayed by so many things such as what you eat that day, whether you're holding water, whether you've been to the toilet yet etc. I hate having to starve myself or worry all day about what i eat before weighing in after work. This way I got to pick my own weigh in day and when I like to be weighed!
So yeah, thoughts??
I'm going to try it for 2 months and if I haven't lost any weight, or i yo-yo then I'm going to just go back to SW, but I think I need a chance to do it on my own!
Here's to my first weigh in tomorrow morning after trying on my own for a week!