First Weigh In

I took the plunge and signed up for the monthly pass, and then went to my first weigh in last night. The group was quite small, with a few new members including me. I was the fattest person there, but I wasn’t surprised to be honest. There were a couple of people there who have lost a few stone and are close to their goal. Hopefully I will be in the same position one day.

As it was an evening, and I was wearing clothes and not holding on to the sink to support my weight, the scales clicked in at 18 stone 10. My Leader set my goal to reach 5% of my body weight which is 17 stone 11, so just under a stone. I think that is a pretty good mini goal to have and it shouldn’t take me too long. I’m hoping for a good weight loss this first week as my body gets over the shock of not being allowed to consume my weight in chocolate everyday. It’s 10 weeks until my birthday so I should have lost a stone by then, although I may re-evaluate this goal depending on how much I lose in the first couple of weeks. It might be more realistic to try for my 10% for my birthday to give me something to work hard for.

I stocked up on fruities and weightwatchers bars as an alternative to chocolate, and bought a clicker, which a friend at my office assures me is a good buy as it allows me to count my points via a clicker attached to my keys so I don’t have to remember them. I suppose it’s good to have little reminders about the place that my eating has to change.

One habit I’m determined to get stuck into is the breakfast one. I leave the house at twenty past seven, usually without eating, and arrive at the office about an hour or so later starving. This makes the ham and cheese croissants at Sheffield station fairly attractive and will power is non existent at that time of the morning. So, my new habit (which I did today) is to have a breakfast bar on my way to my local station with a bottle of water, ignore the croissants at Sheffield, grab a tea instead of a fat filled latte, and have a bowl of cereal at the office which really sets me up for the day. I have to say, I’m feeling better for it already and there were no scary tummy rumbles on the train. It helps to know that a ham and cheese croissant is probably about 12 points which is nearly half my day’s points. I might try and save up some points to have it occasionally but then I find myself asking is it really worth it? Do I want it that much? Probably not. I’d rather spend extra points on going out for meals rather than on a breakfast snack that doesn’t fill me up and lasts about 2 minutes.

I’m feeling fairly positive today. I have a good idea of what I’m going to be eating this week, although I’m going to rely on convenience food to get me started and lots of places have ranges that are either easy to point or already have the points on them. I quite like having hot ready meals at lunch time. I need to go to the shops tonight and buy some stuff in so I’m prepared

My other half will probably be away at the weekend, climbing ice or mountain biking, so I think I’m going to devote some time to myself. I’m thinking of ideas along the lines of a scrapbook to document my weight loss with pictures of how I look now and trackers to chart my progress, pictures from magazines of clothes I want to wear and the kind of things I want to be doing. I made something similar once before, a collage that was laminated and put up on the wall, which I found really motivating. I might even put it up on the section divider behind my computer at work so I have to look at it all day which may help stop snacking. Also a treat box for me to dip into when I’m feeling low or maybe as a reward for minor achievements like every pound lost although I’m more tempted to make it a “whenever” box with magazines and manicure sets. We have a load of weightwatchers recipe books donated from my Mum ages ago and some from when I did this a couple of years ago so I might dig into them as some point, although I don’t want to do too much to start with. It would be good to make no point or low point vegetable soup though.