Review time....

I've had a lovely week this week, I've seen a lot of people, for one reason or another, who I haven't seen for a while - and they have all given me such lovely compliments about my weight loss. This got me thinking......as I mentioned a couple of posts ago - my mojo seems to have diminished somewhat. It's not that I don't want to lose weight anymore, or that I've gone off SW (I have actually been thinking about becoming a SW consultant, when I have lost enough)......I think it is that I've let the little demon out, and started to self sabotage.

At first, I was blaming my mother in law, who we are living with at the moment - not because she's an old dragon, and I have to comfort eat (she's not) but that she keeps buying biscuits that I like....digestive or ginger nut anyone?

Look away now, if you are trying to eat healthily....

In group this week, our we were talking about people who sabotage us......sw lady's mom, for trying to feed her up on cake, my dear old nans, - both who would comment that I needed to lose weight, and then in the next breath, offer me food, friends trying to encourage you to have a drink on a night out, and so on.....and we give in, and do it - eat the cake, stuff down the boiled sweets (both nan's poison) and have 5 or 6 cocktails, all the time inwardly berating ourselves. Then comes the guilt, usually, swiftly followed by eating more food to deal with the emotion.

Essentially, what we all talked about, was how to stop the saboteurs.....a frank conversation with the person who does it.....but then sometimes, that leads to them saying...' I'm not offering you any cake, cos I know you can't have it' or 'ooooh, you're being naughty today aren't you'....or just a simple 'tut tut'...........none of this helps...in my case, it actually makes me defiant - and I bloody well will have it!

So what do we do? Well the answer to this is remarkably simple......stop the worst saboteur in the world.......YOU! Well, not you specifically, lovely reader, but the person who is actually shoving the cake in your hole, so to speak......in my case....ME. Unless you are in one of those weird extreme feeders relationships - where they pretty much force feed you, in which case - get out.......while you can.

So, if my mother in law wants biscuits in the house, then, she shall have them and I just need to stop eating them - I, am in charge of my own destiny......right?

I've just sat and read through all of my blogs, and realised that at least 2 of the targets I have set, I have missed! Oops. So here we go, I'm setting a new one, so, put your phone down (unless you are reading this on it, obvs), get comfy, and pay attention - I really want to stick to this one.....

By the time I have been doing SW for one whole year - which will be on 7th Jan - then, I want to have lost 7 stone - I think this might be about 1/2 way there for me.....

If I can do this, then I will be chuffed to bits - that leaves me with 2 stone 3 1/2 lbs to get off in 16 weeks - 1.9 lb a week.......

Just about do-able, I reckon - just got to get rid of my current lurgy, and kick start the exercise, which has been on hold for just over a week, mainly because I couldn't breathe ......and it does seem to help a lot with exercise.

Please do keep cheering me on - I really need that, and thanks once again, for all your lovely comments, on here, when I see you, on fb etc xxxx