Here we go...

You join me as I am 2stone 4lbs into my weight loss journey, and hopefully not even halfway through my efforts. I've just had a seriously off plan week and have decided that keeping my journey somewhere other than my head might help a bit more - the more people I am answering to the better in my opinion, it makes it harder to justify that extra biscuit/bit of cake!

I started this journey back in February when I finally plucked up the courage to go along to my local Slimming World group, rather than looking at the website 3 times a day and thinking that it sounded like just my kind of plan! I had multiple reasons for wanting to loose weight (don't we all!) but the biggest reason of all for me was desperately wanting to be able to look in the mirror and not wonder how my husband could bring himself to touch me! Please bear in mind that he has NEVER said anything of the sort, and in fact has always told me he loves me no matter what - but when you don't feel good in yourself you do start to wonder how other people can think you do look good.

I also had recently bought a pair of really nice jeans that I loved, in a size I thought I'd slip into no problem and then had the humiliation of them not even going past my thighs, as well as my younger sisters wedding in the early autumn and I was determined not to be the fat bridesmaid!

So I went along to my local group, run by the wonderful Angie. I was pretty much terrified as I walked into the hall but after having the plan explained and realising that everyones got to start somewhere I discovered inside myself a fairly steely determination that this WOULD be the time I did it, unlike my previous weight loss attempts that saw me loose a maximum of a stone on a diet of grilled chicken and plain jacket potato and then put it all back on the second I branched back into 'real food'!

The rest is pretty much history, its been hard work some times resisting when other people are getting their takeaway curries but I always think to myself 'I want to be slim more than I want a curry/cookie/cake' and it seems to work. I find the half stone awards massively motivating as well, I keep my latest three on my fridge to remind me how hard I've worked, along with my Slimmer of the Month, Club 10 and Slimmer of the week (when I get it!). My husband is completely wonderful and has joined in as well, loosing a stone and a half and is now only 4lbs away from his personal target - we keep each other on the straight and narrow, when one of us says 'Sod it shall we get a takeaway' about 80% of the time the other one will be one step ahead and say no, or already have a healthy dinner planned, or in the oven!

I'll sign off this post with a quick run down of my weekly weigh ins just to get you up to speed on how I've got here, and what my journey has looked like:

Week 1: one day when I'm feeling brave I'll write my start weight here!
Week 2: -4
Week 3: -1
Week 4: -4
Week 5: -3
Week 6: -0.5
Week 7: -4.5
Week 8: -2
Week 9: +5
Week 10: -1
Week 11: -4
Week 12: -0.5
Week 13: +0.5
Week 14: -1.5
Week 15: +1
Week 16: -6.5
Week 17: +1
Week 18: STS
Week 19: -1
Week 20: -1
Week 21: -2.5
Week 22: -2.5

So there we go, thats you all caught up!

Isis xx