I feel like I dodged a bullet, no wait, Scud Missile today on the scales! The home scales battery has been flat, so haven't weighed myself at home for over a month and last weigh-in in group was 4/12/2013 when I put on 10 lbs after being away for 2 weeks!
Since then I lost the plot completely and have avoided going to group taking the month off mentally and physically, committing to get back on plan today (again)!
In that month "away", I ploughed "mouth first" into:
- COPIOUS amounts of bread/toast, baguettes and crumpets
- VARIOUS lazy McD meals with the kids
- VARIOUS lazy Subway lunches with Karen Pienaar Dalldorf
- VARIOUS South African sweets, chocolates and crisps
- VARIOUS helpings of trifle, cake and cream, ice-cream, chocolates, dry roasted peanuts, crisps and sweets
- 2 x Christmas Parties
- 2 x Chinese Take aways
- 2 x Christmas dinners (1 with friends and 1 at home)
- 2 x bags of Thornton Toffees
- a treat with my teenage boys to Red Hot Buffet
- a lazy KFC night last night
- an anniversary weekend away
- and pretty much anything else that was going.
To say I didn't know the meaning of NO this last month the moment anything popped into my mind or was offered, is no exaggeration, and if I did say no, it was only because I was already stuffed full of NON-FREE foods, and that eating any more be have been nothing short of attempted suicide!!
HONESTLY, without any hyperbole, I was expected to get on the scales today and gain 1.5 or 2 stone in that month! The conversation in the car enroute to weigh-in with my friend Estelle went something like this:
If I have gained more than 2.5 stone I'm going to cry.
If I have gained 2 stone I wont be surprised.
If I have gained less than 1.5 stone I'll be SHOCKED!
I got on the scales to a 4 lbs gain! WHAT!? How is that even possible?!?!
But I'll take it with thanks and a massive sigh of relief and focus forward with motivation and determination!
