Be warned this might be a very long wordy post ! and I just want to say before you start reading this, this is all my opinion and what works for me, obviously I'm not a personal trainer or nutritionist so don't just rely on my information.
So I'm not usually the one to be all like new year new me and all that jazz, but after a year dealing with anxiety and just not feeling my self, I've decided to finally try to lose the weight I gained in 2012. And I also have a trip to Singapore and Thai land planned in April so I want to look my best for that.
I didn't want to go on one of these silly diets that you can only keep up with for like 3 weeks and then you just give, I wanted to change the way I thought about food and not just food but how I felt about myself, as I think this is also key to changing mindsets and habits.
So I realised I was the heaviest I had ever been, and obviously this wasn't making me feel my best, but what I hadn't noticed was that I had really stopped looking after myself, usually I have a fake tan on, hair all done, makeup on , nails done and a good morning and night skin routine , but I looked in the mirror and realised I had stopped all this and just didn't look like myself . This is when I decided enough was enough, I wasn't going to make a change while not feeling good about myself, so I told myself this is biggest I'm going be and things will just get better from here.
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| My new healthy food |
Next was planning what I was going to eat and how I was going to shift the weight, I looked at a lot diets such as weight watchers, slimming world ect. But decided to go for the Rosemary Conley amazing inch loss plan, as I had given this ago in the past and found it easy to stick to and it worked. I decided the way to keep on track would be to keep organized so I sat down with the diet book, ( which has meal plans, tips for eating out, exercises to do and motivational stories) and I planned my next 14 days of food , all 3 meals and both the snacks, I thought that if I had it all wrote down I would be less likely to stray away from it, I also typed up and printed out some shopping lists, so that I am was not tempted to add anything extra when shopping. So far I have found this very helpful and it's really kept me on track.
It's not all about healthy eating however, with me I've found that if I exercise the weight just drops off, I live across the road from a brand new gym so I'm pretty lucky as i'm just a two minuet walk away. At the moment I've found a real love for spinning, and I go to a class everyday , the reason I love it is you work so hard in that 45 mins and it really pays off, I have also been going to gym as well as spinning about 2 or 3 times a week as well. To make myself want to go to the gym more, I got some new workout clothes and accessories during the January sales and this just makes me feel good about myself when I head out to the gym.
This new me hasn't just been about losing weight and changing my body, I've started thinking about life in a much more positive light and at the moment this is making things just go a lot more smoothly, I'm not getting as stressed about the little things and I've found myself just feeling happier in day to day life. I have also become a lot more organized with everything I do, even down to where I keep make up brushes and clothes, and I have found being more organized is really helping to keep my anxiety at bay a little more.
So yesterday was my first weigh day after a week of this new lifestyle, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had lost 10lbs in 7 days, actually I was pretty happy about that. I know every week won't be as big as a loss as this, but that's fine, I know that keeping up with this new diet and exercise and the positive look on life, wont be the easiest thing I've ever done, but I know it will be worth it all in the end.
If you would like any more posts on this sort of thing, such as what meals I've been eating, whats on my shopping list, what I wear to the gym or how I got over my anxiety and I still deal with the odd bit of now, just leave a comment below this point and I will try to do my best to get a post up as soon as possible.
Becki x
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