4 Stone Mark Achieved

Sorry for the lateness of this blog post as I get weighed again tomorrow, but I've been busy doing other things, like working and visiting my parents.

Last Thursday marked the end of my 14th week doing Slimming World and upon getting on the scales, I had lost the 3 pounds needed to get to the 4 stone lost mark. Weighing in at 16 stone 3 pounds, it marks exactly 4 stone from my starting weight of 20 stone 3 pounds. That means that I am 2 stone 3 pounds off of my target weight, which I may change nearer the time if I'm still not happy.

Speaking about Slimming World to people, I've effectively preached about how well SW works and how I can't understand how people can't lose weight when doing Slimming World. As mentioned before, at the beginning, I was a die hard sceptic of how you can stuff your face with food and still lose weight, but I am living proof that it does work, having lost 4 stone in such a short space of time. I do tell people that they shouldn't expect to lose weight as fast as I have, everyone's different, everyone's body metabolises energy at different rates, some people like me seem to be blessed with quick weight losses and others quite slowly in comparison, but still steady losses anyway, which is still good and people shouldn't be down in the dumps if they only lose 0.5 - 1 pound a week, a loss is a loss and any loss is good. Even if you gain every once in a while, as long as you lose it again, everything is OK.

At the weekend, my girlfriend, step son and I visited my parents from Friday to Sunday and were completely off plan, we didn't count Syns and had a weekend off. I don't know if I should expect to gain this week, maintain or lose, as I ate as if I wasn't on a diet, eating cheese, having full bowls of cereal and eating white bread and premium sausages, along with shephards pie, gravy, roast lamb, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, steak, chips, onion rings, ice cream, to name but a few things. We were back on plan on Monday, 5 syns on Monday, 16.5 syns on Tuesday, haven't had any yet today. So hopefully, if I do gain (it'll be the first time I wouldn't have lost weight) hopefully it won't be too much, but the important thing is that we enjoyed ourselves and it's not every day we see my parents and family.

You should try Slimming World, if you're like me and you like your food but you want to lose weight. I was sceptical, but it really does work. It really does, I cannot empathise that enough, 15 weeks in tomorrow and 4 stone lighter up to last week, you cannot dispute that!

15 April 16