I actually want to eat healthier
It has been a while since my last update, and there’s been a couple of big events – including going on holiday for a week to Lanzarote – my first holiday since being on the trial. I have continued to make steady progress, no dramatic weight-loss but steady. I think my body is getting used to the injections now and not having as many side effects, but I do still get bloating on occasion, and at times constipation, particularly if I don’t keep up my fluid intake. I have fallen into a routine with the clinic and nutritionist appointments and have definitely noticed a change in my eating habits.
I have found myself wanting to eat healthier, not just because I should but rather because I want to, it feels like my body is telling me what it needs too – maybe it always has but I haven’t listened before.
Events and holidays
As I was making steady progress at the end of last year, I was nervous about Christmastime for two reasons. Would I enjoy it the same, and would I over indulge and put back on the weight I had lost. Many years of going to slimming clubs and going to the weigh in after Christmas with everyone laughing about the fact they had put a stone on but were back on plan now for the New Year. I didn’t want that, I wanted to keep going and have my new habits for life.
I had a great Christmas, I didn’t feel like I was on a diet – I enjoyed food and drink, I socialised, I danced and was definitely merry.
Not weighing between appointments
I don’t know how everyone is around their appointments, but I have continued to not weigh myself between them as I want to feel like this is my life, and not be dictated to by the scales. The appointment before Christmas had me at 27lbs weight loss and 10 cms off my waist maintaining my steady 2lbs per week. The appointment after Christmas was following our holiday too. Again I wanted to enjoy our holiday and really felt that we did – and one thing I really noticed was that I didn’t eat copious amounts of bread which is normally my staple on holiday
I love the fresh bread easily available abroad. This time I just didn’t feel the need for it.
Lager, lager
I drank alcohol everyday and it was lager at that (I only ever drink lager on holiday, it absolutely tastes better in the sun). We did walk everywhere too, with over 20,000 steps a day, so I didn’t really feel like we had overindulged too much, but I was nervous about getting weighed.
My appointment arrived and I had put weight on, however it was only 1lb and I had lost another cm off my waist. Truth be told, I am happy with that. No feeling of my previous life of slimming clubs and worry. The rollercoaster of up/down, eat, don’t eat. Now I’m simulating the behaviour of a non-fat person, and taking life events in their stride! You don’t know what a change that is for me, and it’s bloody monumental.
