This is part 3 of my weight loss story, check out my earlier posts for parts 1 & 2. I joined Slimming World in January 2011 and following their healthy eating and healthy lifestyle plans I am finding losing weight a doddle! I have since taken on a new role as a Slimming World Consultant and am really enjoying helping others achieve their weight loss ambitions.
March 2011
A mixed month, started with a disappointing 4 lbs in 3 weeks, maybe I have just been lucky to lose weight so quickly so far and now it will slow down. However, the next week I lose 4 lbs and in doing so achieve an overall weight loss of 2 stone. I complete my silver award for ‘Body Magic’ which meant doing 30 minutes of exercise at least 3 times a week for the last month. My average exercise routine is now a session at the gym, a walk/jog (training with the aim of completing Race for Life this year), and an exercise class (normally Zumba) each week, I'm enjoying making friends at the classes and find it much easier to get the motivation to go out than to do the exercise at home, particularly as you have to pay if you cancel within 24 hours!
Finished the month with a bit of a downer, having my first weight gain, 1 ½ pounds on. I know the reason though as the week had started with pizza with the girls, and continued similarly all week! Must be stricter next week!
April 2011
Being strict worked, I kept my syns low and added in an extra exercise class to my routine, I am now also managing to jog more and walk less when I use the treadmill, and would love to do race for life this year and manage to jog the whole way. The scales reflected how strict I’d been, although I’d not been hungry once, I’d lost 8 pounds and got my 2 ½ stone weight loss award! I think having eaten rubbish last week and Food Optimising 100% this week, my body must have thought it was on week 1 again!
I managed to lose 4 more lbs over the next fortnight and reached my interim target well ahead of my holiday. Need to think about my final goal weight, but I think the next I’d like to set is to lose another half stone so I am 10 stone something.
This month I competed in my first run, I did a 1km Easter Bunny Fun Run and raised £75 for St Catherine’s Hospice. I was pleased to complete the whole race at a jog, finishing midfield in about 8 minutes (forgot to time myself exactly in all the excitement). I have also signed up for the St Catherine’s Hospice Midnight Walk in June, which is a ladies only half marathon walk in June.
Again a bit of a downer at the end of the month 1 ½ lbs on, those Easter eggs and strawberries and cream after the Royal Wedding catching up with me, However I can’t complain as I’ve nearly lost 3 stone, and haven’t felt so healthy in years. I’m the slimmest my husband has ever known me, and the added bonus is he has lost a stone too just by eating my slimming evening meals. I have far more energy, need far less sleep, and can enjoy running round with the kids a whole lot more. Even with the weight gain this week, I won slimmer of the month earning myself a slimming world magnet, which I have stuck to the biscuit tin to remind me not to eat them!
