Backwards In High Heels

Enjoying The Excuse Whilst It's Here

By the start of this year, I was celebrating losing three and a half stone. It's a good job I shifted that lard as now I am high steroid treatment I'm piling it back on. The steroid effects are plentiful and one of them is increased hunger and water retention. At the moment, if it styands still or doesn't run quick enough, I will eat it.

Another side effect is it has altered my body clock. A lot of the time I am having 48 hour long days, or can't sleep 'til the early hours. This means midnight has become another meal time.

Add in to this my mother has been possessed by a baking demon. From no where she can't stop baking and cooking, and I am loving the fruit of her labours. Yes, my backside is increasing, but I know it will come back off in the long run. I am using the steroid excuse to enjoy food and treats for the time being.

Today I shall be requesting she makes Gruyère and courgette muffins as seen on Something for the Weekend this morning. Here's the recipe if you want to join us.

Repeat Offender

Well I won't say how I couldn't blog yesterday due to hurting my eye, given there was no sympathy for my sprained tongue...just lots and lots of innuendo.

Remember how I wasn't fazed or beating myself up about putting 2lb on last week? Well last night at Slimming World, I lost it - see, told you so, told you so. Getting in a shame spiral is no help - that's usually what gets you to the high end of the scales in the first place. Tomorrow I'm off for a lovely 3 course Christmas lunch. I will be eating everything and not worrying :)

Eat, Drink and Be Merry (Not Guilty)

So since March I've lost 3st 7lbs, with Slimming World. It's a wonderful and supportive programme which is crammed full of common sense. It ISN'T a diet! I've never eaten as much, and I highly recommend it.

However at last night's weigh in my changed was 2lb - on not off! I know exactly where it has come from. Last week was very stressful and I had a throat that felt like it had been sandpapered so I medicated myself with a lot of ice cream and didn't follow the plan. Do I feel guilty, disappointed, let down? - hell no! It was one week. I know the plan works, it comes back off and I'm back on my way. I'm sat in jeans 3 sizes smaller than in March, when they wouldn't go past my thighs - now they are loose! And that's what I'm keeping in mind this Christmas.

I will be thoroughly enjoying the Christmas lunches/work parties, (where I will be partaking in all three courses don't you worry!) totally guilt free. Yes that's right GUILT FREE! Admittedly I won't be using the 'it's Christmas excuse' to buy in half of Tesco and make the house a mini Thorntons depot. I'll be having the usual yummy meals at home we've been enjoying all year but at dos and what not, I won't deny myself. I will be going to group each week over Christmas and there may be a bit of gain here and there over the festive period but it  will come off again. It's not the end of the world, it's Christmas!

What would be a disservice to myself would be to skip group and go with the 'I'll start again in January' mentality. That is just opening the floodgates. Before you know it you are chasing your tail - 'I'll try and lose it before I go back, I'll give myself another week', when actually if you went to group in the first place you'd probably discover you'd not put on half as much as you were imagining (or your dicky scales at home were reading). Being on a diet doesn't work! Hammering your body with pills and operations and God knows what doesn't answer the problems. Eating well, knowing your triggers and friendly support does.