So, yes, dear reader, you have probably gathered, I haven't so much fallen from the wagon, as launched myself from it in a giant catapult.
If I'm honest, I'm not really sure what happened - nothing specific, I just lost the will to live with it all really. I think (wait for it, the excuses are coming) that there are a couple of contributing factors.....
I, apparently, have a bit of an obsessive trait to my personality, in so much as I am an all or nothing kind of gal. This holds absolutely, when I am trying to lose weight, and in the past, I have joined gyms, bought expensive new trainers etc etc, only to use them a handful of times, and then I'm bored and BAM - it all goes to pot :-(
When I started SW this time, I really got into it initially - really finding it quite easy to follow, and stick to, as in essence it's all about eating good food, that isn't processed, and that is no real chore. So I set up the Runkeeper app on my phone, although for me, it should probably be called Stroll-keeper - and as I can log into it at home on the old laptop, I can monitor how I am improving, where I am going etc. I also did my weekly shop on line, so as not to be tempted, by all the lovely food and bakery smells, I planned my meals for the week and I used SW's website to keep a track of what I was eating and when, and to monitor my weight loss. I even took to taking god-awful photo's of me in my chewing gum grey bra and pants, purely for my own 'amusement' so that hopefully I would see the fat go down, month by month, as on someone my size, even a stone weight loss, is not actually that noticeable. Oh, and we had also had a new puppy, who would need walking, so all was good.
Then, disaster struck, along with my general growing apathy towards weight loss, not that I don't want to do it, but I couldn't be bothered to make the effort, then a couple of things happened. Harvey our puppy managed to break his leg, so lots of staying at home and keeping him amused and quiet, then my laptop met an untimely near fatal accident (it was 'puppied') and had to have new innards, so that stopped me blogging (which helps) and all the associated apps and monitoring that I like to do. So what do I do when disaster strikes - yep you've guessed it - stuff my blummin' cake hole.
So what's changed over the last few months then - well, Harvey is all fixed now, and full of energy, so he needs walking lots, as he drives us insane otherwise, my laptop is all fixed, and ready for my monitoring obsession to commence and most noticeably, my belt buckle, which was on the smallest hole, and that was struggling to keep my trews up, has snuck back up a couple of notches and my ankles are back to swelling up most days now :-(
So, here's to SW tomorrow night and to getting back on that wagon. I'll get weighed tomorrow, shopping is ordered - walks are planned, fingers crossed people, strap in, no doubt it will be a bumpy ride. xx
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