ellierose988
Silver Member
Thought I might start up a little thing about my feelings and thoughts about how slimming world is working for me.
I started on January 5th, a Thursday, but I was nervous about weighing myself. My mum has always sort of got mad at me when I weighed myself because I always felt depressed afterwards, and that had sort of stuck with me, so originally I was saying I wouldn't weigh myself until I felt a physical difference. But then, I joined this forum on the sunday, and decided otherwise, because how else am I going to monitor how I'm doing, and know how much I've lost?
So I weighed myself that day, Sunday 8th. Now, Sundays will be my weigh days. (In case you haven't guessed, I haven't joined slimming world officially. I can't afford it. But I bought the books on ebay).
Technically I've been on the plan for 10 days, although didn't start the weighins and the forum part straightaway.
I've been really enjoying it so far. The only thing is I can't shake the cynical feeling - I can't help thinking, will I really lose weight? If anything I feel like I must have put on, I feel like I'm eating a lot, but I am following the plan 100% as far as I know, have been researching things I'm unsure of on here, and have only been eating until I'm full.
I've been getting tummy aches quite a bit since I started, well, about three or four days into it, which I think is down to the increased amount of fruit/veg I've been eating. Hopefully my body will get used to it soon as it's getting a bit annoying, although in a weird way I like it because it's showing me a physical sign that my diet has changed.
The fact I haven't weighed myself yet means that I'm still unsure how well the plan is working for me, but to be honest i'm enjoying it either way and already feel better about myself, which in turn means I carry myself better, with more confidence, therefore feel I may look better as well, which is always good.
SW has been a revelation to me. I've attempted "diets" in the past but they've always been a bit make-it-up-as-I-go-along or calorie-county which has never worked for me. Psychologically I feel like as soon as you deny yourself something, you want it more which makes you more likely to binge. This is why I love SW's ideals.
I was feeling guilty about the amount of wine I was putting away before but now I can have my 13 syns worth a day and not feel guilty at all.
I've also noticed that I've been almost repulsed by high fat foods... the idea of KFC, McDonalds or Dominos is gross to me, I'd rather cook myself up something tasty and syn-free.
I love cooking and experimenting with recipes.
In many ways SW is perfect for me - but we shall see if I'm feeling the same after my first WI tomorrow... hehe, I'm so glad I joined here though: I think that without this place I may have been disappointed if I stepped on the scales and only saw a pound loss, but now I feel like that is an accomplishment to be proud of. I saw that someone on here pointed out that a pound a week is still three stone a year loss. I want to lose around three stone and am happy for it to take a year!
I started on January 5th, a Thursday, but I was nervous about weighing myself. My mum has always sort of got mad at me when I weighed myself because I always felt depressed afterwards, and that had sort of stuck with me, so originally I was saying I wouldn't weigh myself until I felt a physical difference. But then, I joined this forum on the sunday, and decided otherwise, because how else am I going to monitor how I'm doing, and know how much I've lost?
So I weighed myself that day, Sunday 8th. Now, Sundays will be my weigh days. (In case you haven't guessed, I haven't joined slimming world officially. I can't afford it. But I bought the books on ebay).
Technically I've been on the plan for 10 days, although didn't start the weighins and the forum part straightaway.
I've been really enjoying it so far. The only thing is I can't shake the cynical feeling - I can't help thinking, will I really lose weight? If anything I feel like I must have put on, I feel like I'm eating a lot, but I am following the plan 100% as far as I know, have been researching things I'm unsure of on here, and have only been eating until I'm full.
I've been getting tummy aches quite a bit since I started, well, about three or four days into it, which I think is down to the increased amount of fruit/veg I've been eating. Hopefully my body will get used to it soon as it's getting a bit annoying, although in a weird way I like it because it's showing me a physical sign that my diet has changed.
The fact I haven't weighed myself yet means that I'm still unsure how well the plan is working for me, but to be honest i'm enjoying it either way and already feel better about myself, which in turn means I carry myself better, with more confidence, therefore feel I may look better as well, which is always good.
SW has been a revelation to me. I've attempted "diets" in the past but they've always been a bit make-it-up-as-I-go-along or calorie-county which has never worked for me. Psychologically I feel like as soon as you deny yourself something, you want it more which makes you more likely to binge. This is why I love SW's ideals.
I was feeling guilty about the amount of wine I was putting away before but now I can have my 13 syns worth a day and not feel guilty at all.
I've also noticed that I've been almost repulsed by high fat foods... the idea of KFC, McDonalds or Dominos is gross to me, I'd rather cook myself up something tasty and syn-free.
I love cooking and experimenting with recipes.
In many ways SW is perfect for me - but we shall see if I'm feeling the same after my first WI tomorrow... hehe, I'm so glad I joined here though: I think that without this place I may have been disappointed if I stepped on the scales and only saw a pound loss, but now I feel like that is an accomplishment to be proud of. I saw that someone on here pointed out that a pound a week is still three stone a year loss. I want to lose around three stone and am happy for it to take a year!
