Good morning FF’s. Just thought I would pop on with an update on l’il old MOI.
I posted the other week about joining Slimming World and how difficult losing weight has been when going through Menopause etc. So last week, I told you about my 5.5 lb weight loss in week 1 (so happy). Week 2, I stuck rigidly to the plan, did everything the packet tells you, attended class on Friday, no breakfast, lightweight trousers on, went to toilet about 10 times before the big reveal, paid my £5.95 weigh – in fee, got on scales, ‘right, here we go, breathe in, do not look at scales, you got this Val, probably be about 3lbs off, you will be crowned ‘SLIMMER OF THE WEEK’ …….. DRUM ROLL…..I get on the scales AND she actually has the audacity to utter these words, (it pains me to have to repeat them), ‘you have stayed the same this week’. Sorry – What the actual ****?.…… ‘Don’t worry’, she says, ‘it sometimes happens’…. no, it bloody doesn’t, not on week 2 and not to me!!!! Does she not know who I am and that I want this blubber off tout suite, so I can start living/having fun again!!!!!??? I cannot even begin to tell you how disappointed I was, I could see the point if I had ‘cheated’ but I hadn’t. I even sat eating my frozen raspberries while someone next to me, (you know who you are!!) was enjoying M & S Peanut butter bites, that I had bought them – now that’s dedication to a diet!! Needless to say, I did not stay for the ‘after weigh-in ”chat” ‘, (which I cant be bothered with at best of times, whole load of women talking about food and relishing their 0.5 lb weight loss, whilst telling you they have been out for lunch every day, ate cakes etc)…. so, nope, sitting there listening to that drivel would have driven me….. straight to Greggs.
Following this debacle, I went to meet my friend for breakfast, we had already pre-arranged this celebratory feast (HA!!), however, instead of having some lovely french toast as a big high-five to me, I had to peruse the menu for something I was ‘allowed’ to eat, something SYN free, so I opted for some scrambled eggs and a couple of rashers of bacon, (no toast). Now I know this delight wouldn’t have been cooked to Slimming World’s directive, however, unless I went into said establishment’s kitchen, and cooked my own breakfast, this was as close as I could get to FREE food.
So, after this delight, I could have just came home and said ‘**** it’ and binged on goodies, but as I was already grumpy about paying money to stay same weight, and had just eaten a boring breakfast, I didn’t fancy doing it all again the following week, i.e, paying money to be told I had stayed the same (‘these things happen!!’) or worse still, ‘aw, you have put weight on, did you follow the plan, what went wrong for you this week?’. AAARRRGGGHHHH !! So, I am still doing what I was doing, plus going to the gym later today and spin classes next week and just generally living the life of a 59 year old monk and will continue to do so until the next big REVEAL.
What happens next? Well, we will all (that includes you, you are onboard this crash flight) wait with baited breath for next Friday to come along. You can however, rest assured, I may not act quite as ‘adult’, on said day, if my weight stays the same, or heaven forbid, it goes up!!
Who would be a middle aged, menopausal woman??? Not Moi!! Unfortunately, we are an increasing breed.
A bientot mes amis xx
ValApparel 