Cast your minds back 10 weeks or so - those halcyon days pre-summer holidays where we were all enjoying the sunshine and hoping that perhaps this year we might actually get to wear flipflops and summer dresses and NOT freeze to death/look like drowned rats before the end of the day...
I was 6 weeks in to the Fast Diet - you know, the one where you eat very little for 2 days a week and eat 'normally' the rest of the time? I was doing alright, had already lost over half a stone and had calculated that, at that rate, I would be back to my pre-pregnancy weight by the end of September.
Fast forward to the end of September...
Guess what folks? I am nowhere near my pre-pregnancy weight (now there's a surprise!).
So what happened? you ask. I'll tell you.
THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS HAPPENED!
Now I can't blame it all on having Roo home for six weeks but have you ever tried fasting with an uber energetic 5yo bouncing around the place like Tigger after a big bag of Haribo? Fasting whilst he is at school is easy (ish) because you don't have that constant 'Mummy, I'm hungry! Can I have...?' in your ear from breakfast time right the way through till bedtime.
Then there were the days out that usually required a picnic of some description if we didn't actually eat out, at least one ice-cream and the obligatory coffee (for me), milkshake (for him) and cake. Obviously.
We actually went on holiday too, to Devon, which meant a week of ice cream, cream teas, fish and chips and pasties. Plus a week with my mum and dad - who view fasting as some kind of torture and manage to pile more calories on one dinner plate than I generally eat in an entire day!
With all this going on it's amazing I only gained 2lbs throughout the entire holiday!
But now the hols are over, Roo is back at school, I have goal to reach and the clock is ticking...
5:2 began in earnest again last week - I have got back into my routine with relative ease (although the second fast day was a bit of a nightmare - time of the month and no chocolate? *shudders* ). The 2lb gain has gone again already and I am ready say good bye to the other stone and a half over the next few months. The next 4 months, to be precise.
They say it's always helpful to have a specific goal in mind whatever you are doing. It helps to keep focused if you know exactly where you are heading.
I know exactly where I am heading. In 4 months time I reach a milestone and I am absolutely determined I will not be fat AND forty...
I've piled on the pounds over the holidays too! My aim is to head back down to a size twelve as anything smaller would make me look anorexic! I'm seriously tempted to try the 5:2 diet, but at present I'm aiming to limit my food portions as a precursor to going on it. Although the new antidepressants aren't helping. Side effects: increased appetite and weight gain!
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