1 Year On…

A year is a long time.

A year can be gone in a flash.

A year is not such a long time…

Three statements, all true.

This last year has been full of ups and downs. But if I’m honest, when it comes to my weighloss journey, mostly ups (but downs!).

My journey was slow.  Back in 2002/3 when I lost my initial 5 stone, I did it all, following slimming world in 9 short months.  I went into this thinking it would be that easy again providing I did all the same things again… boy was I wrong!

Firstly, I hadn’t taken into consideration that I was 29/30 years old when I did that.  Couple that with the fact that now I’m the wrong side of 45 and I’m pretty sure that my metabolism hates me, I should have realised it wasn’t going to be easy!  There were times on this journey where I felt that things hadn’t moved at all for months and when I looked at my chart, it hadn’t!  But the reality was that during those times, my boy shape was changing.  Things were still happening.

It took me a long time to find a lifestyle I could live with which didn’t leave me feeling deprived too.  But once I found it, everything fell into place quite easily.

So as I sit here, writing the final blog entry of the year/first of my next, I will say this… that’s 4 stone gone in the last year and $780.68 won (£625!) via the DietBet Website.  

3 more to go!