Christmas Challenge 2015: Week 2 weigh-in

No change.

My weight stayed the same this week - to be honest I'm very disappointed with this result as I've mainly been sticking to the healthy eating plan, and have reintroduced my after-work aerobics sessions.  This has quickly had an impact as my fitness levels are slowly rising.

The challenge for the coming week is to increase my water intake as I know I'm not drinking enough water at the moment.

Despite this week's result, I'm not going to beat myself up about not losing anything - just keep on with the plan and the exercising and see where it takes me.

Christmas Challenge 2015: Week 1 weigh-in

So after restarting Slimming World, and being a very good girl and tracking all my syns, I had high hopes for a decent weight loss this week.

Well, I did lose weight - but only 1lb.  Still I'm not complaining - if this continues over the next few weeks I'd lose half a stone for Christmas - and if I was lucky enough to lose 1lb every week for the next 6 months, I'd almost be back to my target weight. So it's onwards into week 2, with a big focus on exercise this week.  I have no energy at all at the moment, so that really needs to change.

EuropeCrazy's Christmas Challenge starts here!

What's that sound?  Well, it's the sound of the internet (ok then, the 7 or 8 people who still loyally read this blog!) groaning at the thought of yet another one of my attempts to lose weight.  Since I came back from holiday I've made a couple of feeble attempts and joined a pedometer challenge at work which was a real wake-up call - everyone always thinks that I do a lot of walking but I was shocked to discover that most days I didn't manage to achieve the required 10,000 steps a day.

It's just over 7 weeks until Christmas so I'm keen to shift a few pounds and more importantly inches before gluttony season kicks in.  My attempts this year haven't been too successful, but with the year I've had, that doesn't surprise me.  But rather than focusing on failure, I've decided to rewind to a time when I achieved genuine success - the period between autumn 2010 and spring 2011 when I went down to my lowest weight in years and dropped dress sizes. Back then I was on Weight Watchers whereas now I'm on Slimming World.  Both are very good plans but the key thing is to stick to them; over the past few months my commitment hasn't lasted beyond a week (!) so this time it's all about meal planning, food diaries, and the reintroduction of exercise.

Oh an it's weigh-in day tomorrow....