Fit 'n Fab 4 Fifty

I got on the scales today.   It's not been that long since I did that and the number hadn't gone up much at all but it had gone up.  It's not unexpected of course,   I'm not stupid, as well as my terrible eating habits lately I've had four meals out in a week and hardly a day without drinking.  But I gained a digit,  it has tipped over to the next stone bracket and I am now the same weight as my original SW starting weight.  It's also the same weight, in fact I think one pound heavier than I was when I got on the scales in hospital just before being induced with my eldest son. This means that right now I am the heaviest I have ever been. Shit. I've been up and down a lot over the years but I was so proud of losing 4 stone and then doing pretty well the other times I went back to group. The heaviest I have ever been.   This suddenly feels like a really big mountain to climb.  This must be the line in the sand, the sign that I'm going...

Hi,  its been a while hasn't it.   Turns out that starting a blog didn't immediately give me the motivation to get fit 'n fab,   or even write a few posts, I barely managed a handful of Instagram posts.    But here we are,  I've just had my birthday and so I'm 3 years away from 50.   I have eaten cake today but I have done yoga and a cardio workout so it's at least a baby step forward.  As I've been struggling to get started with the blog I thought I'd dive into the archives of my original blog, where I'd written several Slimming World related posts over the years,  including my 'story'.   The one that I'm going to share today is short, but I wrote it approaching my 40th birthday.    I did go onto to lose a couple of stone and stop smoking between then and now so I do have previous for actually doing what I say I'm going to.   ( I may have put the weight back on, but I haven't smoked for 6 years)...

 Never miss a Monday - this may just become a mantra to as I'm clinging onto this rule today.  I've been away for the weekend,  our summer 'holiday'  I'm not sure that 2 nights away a couple of hours drive away counts as a holiday but it's all we're having so it is what it is.   It was a celebration weekend for my parents 50th wedding anniversary and I had been really looking forward to it for months.  When I made my decision to start to make improvements to my health I was obviously aware of this weekend and I had the choice of course to be good,  be somewhere in the middle or say sod it get back on track on Monday.  Well,  you can probably take a guess at what I did!  If I was the kind of person to easily decide to 'diet' all weekend I'm not the kind that chooses to blog about it am I? Fish and chips, and a massive slice of lemon meringue for lunch,    KFC delivered to the villa Friday evening.  Bakery savoury pastr...

 Monday 15th July (Originally written in a notebook, just after I decided to start documenting my progress so I decided to add it here to start me off)  Never miss a Monday I have just weighed at the heaviest I have been since I was 9 months pregnant and just a few pounds off my original starting weight at Slimming World.  I can feel it, it's as if I didn't really notice it creeping up but suddenly I am struggling and have decided that I need to make some changes. I am finding the heat really hard to deal with this year, maybe it's just bloody hot, maybe it's perimenopause but whatever it is it would be easier if I wasn't carrying this extra weight.  I gave birth in August many years ago and it's feeling a little similar. Most of my clothes have got uncomfortably tight and I am short of breath quickly if I walk up the stairs rather than using the lift.  My knees are taking a lot of strain lately, and I've felt a few familiar twinges which previously has led ...

Hey new blog reader (or future old blog reader digging through the archives) let me introduce myself and attempt to explain what I'm planning to use this blog for.  Firstly, and most importantly I am not 50,  I'm not even *that* close to fifty.    I'll admit I'm on the downward slope of my forties but at time of writing I'm only 46.    It's not often you hear the words 'only 46'  but on a blog where you would be forgiven for thinking I'm much closer to the big 50 I think I can get away with it! I've struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember,  was 'big boned' at school and spent many years thinking it was just what it was and there was nothing I could do about it.  Fast forward to my late 20s and I joined Slimming World,  I went on to lose just over 4 stone and it totally changed my life and outlook.   For nearly 20 years I'd kinda maintained that weight,   2 babies,  and a fair bit of up and downs on...