Good morning everyone, it's errant Helen here.
Well what a week it's been - I've had a crap week diet wise, but do have a reason - we found out on Monday that my Mum, who's terminally ill, had been sent home by the oncologists as her cancer has now reached the stage where they can do nothing more for her at all by way of treatment. Although we've known for ages that she's terminal (she was told she would have 6 months to live nearly 5 years ago!), it was just a massive shock to actually realise that the end is coming sooner rather than later. Anyway, this sent my eating absolutely haywire, and I was off plan for a good 3 or 4 days - not totally bingeing or anything, but eating crap like bowls of muesli for dinner and stuff like that.
I felt really depressed about it and fed up with myself for being so crap, but went for a really long walk yesterday lunchtime to try to undo some of the damage. I took a sneaky peek on the scales this morning, and miraculously they were showing a loss (official WI day is tomorrow, so this could change!), so it has given me a bit of renewed resolve.
However, if I'm honest with myself, I haven't been sticking to plan as well for the past few weeks and I think it's because I'm getting bored with the programme. I find it very hard to have to make food from scratch all the time particularly if I've had a crappy day at work, so I've had a think about it and I'm going to switch to Weightwatchers for 2 weeks up to when I go on my hols. I think hopefully this will enable me to get all the things I'm craving for out of my system, and will also limit my portions a bit - I've been totally out of control on yoghurts for the past week too.
Going forward, I think this is something I might have to do every so often - switch plans for a couple of weeks - as I do tend to fail on diets if I get bored. I've no idea if it will work or not - but from what I've read on here it should be ok as long as I do at least a full week on each plan and then switch over - you can't do 1 day SW, 1 day WWW - that doesn't work at all apparently.
So I hope I can still come on here and WI even though I am switching plans for a couple of weeks? I really hope so.
Oh and btw, if you haven't tried the new Chocolate Weetabix yet - OMG!!!! LUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Helen x