What a total mind f**k

So I’ve been looking at my Slimming World book, & last year I paid £4.95 a week for 52 weeks to lose a grand total of 5 lbs. I have made more progress in 2020 then I did in 2019. So what’s changed?

My thinking, for one. My thinking that I actually need to follow the plan 100%, I need to make my weight loss important, & make staying to group important. I can’t fool myself into thinking I am being “on it” when I’m really not. You can’t put in 50% of effort into your week & then be disappointed that you’ve not lost 2 lbs. You can’t go over Syns 1 or 2 nights then be pissed off you only lost 0.5 lb. If you are not following it, as it says in the book, not counting Syns, not weighing or measuring what you know you should be, then change it. Insanity is doing the same old shit over & over again & expecting to get different results.

So what was stopping me from putting in 100% effort? Danger times & trigger foods.

My danger time is definitely the weekend, I clock off from work, which then leads me to clock off from life. I half ass the weekends by half assing the plan & I need to remember that in order to get the losses I need to use my full ass every weekend. So that’s what I’ve done this year. Less booze on a Friday & Saturday night, “because I deserve it” is not a valid excuse to neck half a bottle of rum. I deserve to put myself first & get the losses & get my ass to Target! And to be fair, I’m getting a lot more done on a weekend now I’m not hanging out the back end of horse.

I always just accepted that my danger time was the weekend, I accepted my Syns were going to go high… in order to change the habit I had to change the way I thought about it. It doesn’t have to be this way, I can food optimise my way through Friday night to Sunday night & stay on plan! It’s not actually that hard to do once you sit down & get a plan together.

Don’t settle guys… don’t let those sneaky excuses creep in, don’t just accept that this is the way you are. Change it. Keep putting 100% of effort into yourself because you are worth it. You are important.

And if you’ve now realised that, then make your Group important. Your consultant is there to help you every single week, if you’re not taking advantage of that, why not? It’s 1 hour a week out of 168. We give so many other people our time, do you give yourself enough of it? ?