Day One of Blog

So...this is blogging!

Well, thank you for dropping by. I'm Anne, I'm 23 and currently following Slimming World's extra easy plan.  To look at me, you'd probably wonder why. I'm around 5ft2, and very petite, with a relatively large chest thrown into the mix.

I'm not going to pretend I've got it half as hard as those people who have got multiple stones to lose. Nowhere close. However, because I am so petite, I literally feel every pound gained on my body. I suppose its like the way women look at hair...if you have fine, straight hair, you want full, wavy hair or vice versa (for the record I have full wavy hair). I wish I wasn't petite, I just wish I was normal (whatever that is!). I have never EVER bought a pair of pants that fitted me perfectly without adjustment. 


I'm also an eater when I'm happy. At one point my partner and I were having a takeout pizza every 10 days or so as a 'treat', whilst having take out at the weekend anyway, just because.


I've always been quite good when I gain weight; I recognise and acknowledge it quite quickly. It's the 'doing something about it' bit I've struggled with. When I first started working, it became the norm to have a kitkat and Irn Bru for breakfast, then fast food for lunch. 


I started Weight Watchers 18 months after starting work, after slowly piling the pounds on. I think I did well to make it to 18 months really. A colleague and I joined together in January, as did about 100 other people. We got the books and were really excited. However, it soon became clear that it was point watching and to me, a different way of calorie counting. I then got quite poorly and that was the end of that. I'd got to half a stone by that point and felt really good about it, but it took me ages to get eating normally again. I half heartedly went back to it when I recovered but never really got there. I then convinced myself that as I was within my BMI limits (albeit in the top end just before crossover) I was fine. 


I tried again this year, but just online, before I went away and again it was only half heartedly.


Then, in September 2011, I discovered Slimming World and changed my life :) Loads of girls at work were raving about it. I was hmming about it until my mum talked about it. So we joined together. It was strange really to think about it....when I was little on of the drawers in the fridge was dedicated to chocolate, and there were always fizzy drinks available, and yet we never got fat. But the lifestyle itself wasn't good and completely unsustainable.


So far I've done well; losing 10.5lbs, with the odd gain here and there. I have worked hard but also been very lucky on weeks where I was expecting a gain, but found a maintain or a loss. Our bodies work in mysterious ways. However, now I'm on the home straight its getting so much harder. That's why I've written this blog. Knowing there are people (potentially) watching me, looking to me for encouragement, I know will force me into getting there.