I'm one of those people who has tried pretty every diet going and yet I'm still pretty darn big. My problem isn't getting the weight off, it's getting bored very easily of things very quickly. I have done Weight Watchers, both the old and new plans, Slimming World, both the original plan and the 'Extra Easy' (FYI I gained weight on Extra Easy plan....) Slim Fast (a lot of years ago) as well as various unhealthy ways of doing it in my teens such as not eating or surviving on only fruit. Don't get me wrong, the weight comes off but so much as look at actual food, it all piles straight back on along with several extra lbs. I actually think doing that might be part of why I find it so hard to diet now? Once I'm in the right frame of mind, I'm finer, I get in the swing of things and start seeing results. BUT. I get bored so easily. The last diet I was on was Slimming World and while I think it's a great diet, it seems to be the best balanced diet that I have ever tried, I stuck it for about 2 months, lost a decent amount of weight and got bored, had a break, put it all back on along with and extra 6lbs!
My new mission has come about as the big 3-0 is coming up pretty fast these days, I'm almost 28 which means in 2 years time my husband will be planning a big 30th birthday party for me (ha ha, a girl can dream!) and I'll have to don an outfit that isn't ill fitting jeans and a cardigan to hide all the lumps and bumps. I would like to become a mum again before then too and at my current size, I don't feel like I can do everything I want to do so it's time to bite the bullet and make that change!
So what am I going to do? Start a daily exercise plan? Try out the newest fad diet or maybe just start healthy eating? Well, in a word, no. I can say 'yes I'll do *name of a diet* and I'll stick to it' but I guarantee, 2 months down the line I'll get fed up, have a break and decide that a break means I can eat my weight in chocolate. This time, I'm going to start, knowing that whatever I choose will probably last only a month or 2 before I need to flit to something else. Maybe that's where I've been going wrong? Expecting to stick with something only to get disheartened when it fails? I am going to start by trying a couple of weeks on a more strict diet to give me a boost and get me in the dieting frame of mind and help my stomach shrink down a bit after the vast amount of food I've been eating over the past months. If you're a serial dieter like me, why not join in or give me a shout, let me know I'm not alone in having a very short dieting attention span! As someone who is completely addicted to getting on the scales at least twice a day, I am going to stop this, it's not healthy and it's not a good example to my 2 young girls so my first weigh in is going to be once I finish my first weeks! This time my focus is mainly going to be on how my clothes feel. Don't get me wrong, I have a goal weight that I'd like to be but who knows, maybe I'll find a happy weight before I get to that weight!
Tomorrow is the first day of my mission! My first 2 weeks are going to be on a meal replacement diet, the ever popular Slim Fast. I'm going to go with 2 shakes a day, 1 for breakfast then 1 for lunch and then a balanced evening meal. No chocolate or sweets! If this goes well? Well there are lots of recipes online for homemade meal replacements shakes etc which are supposed to work out much cheaper. If not? Well there's a wealth of other diets out there just waiting to be tried!
Wish me luck! Tomorrow is the first day in my countdown to the big 3-0 and the first day in the task to lose a whopping 77lbs/5 stone 7lbs/35kg.
Love Sam
